For families caring for a parent at home
No pendant, watch, or cameras.
Stop guessing. Maria™ keeps track of her day and night — and turns it into one number on your phone. When something’s wrong, Maria knows and tells.
Maria from $29.95/mo, paid annually · Maria Free costs nothing
10 minutes since Mom’s last activity. Color-coded for a quick glance — tap for details.
Stop Guessing
Is she wearing it? Did she sleep, eat, take her meds? With a pendant, you have no way of knowing — until there’s an emergency.
Is she wearing it? Did she sleep, eat, take her meds? You have no way of knowing.
Mom’s daily routine — bed, bathroom, walker, meals and meds — learned quietly by small sensors around the home.
Hub + sensorsA color-coded last-activity timer on your phone, and an alert the moment something is wrong.
Maria app · DetectionGentle reminders to grab her walker, take her meds and eat lunch — plus voice messages from family.
Prevention · Included in Maria Pro| Medical alert pendant | Maria / Maria Pro | |
|---|---|---|
| At a glance | Nothing, until an emergency | Last-activity timer, color-coded (Maria Pro) |
| 2:00 AM bathroom run | Left on the charger — no protection | Notices no return to bed and the floor vibration of a fall — and lights her path |
| Before a fall | Nothing it can do | Walker reminders, spoken reminders from Maria Tells, and early-warning reports |
| Added burden on Mom | Must be worn and charged; often left in a drawer | Nothing to wear. No more “are you wearing it?” |
| Monthly cost | $39.95–$89.95 | From $29.95/mo, paid annually |
Pendants are built around the person. Maria is built into the home.
Why It Matters
More Americans 65+ now die from falls than Americans of all ages die in car crashes. And it’s not just more seniors: even adjusted for age, the fall death rate has more than doubled.
U.S. deaths per year
Age-adjusted, the senior fall death rate rose from 29.4 to 69.4 per 100,000 between 1999 and 2020.
Seat belts, airbags, anti-lock brakes, stability control, backup cameras and now auto-braking.
Standard in every car. They protect you without your doing a thing.
Most seniors still rely on a button pendant, an idea from the 1970s. Even models that sense falls must be worn and charged.
It only helps if she has it on at the moment she falls.
Moments a month when a fall is possible. Every trip out of bed and to the bathroom in the dark adds up — about 16 a day for a typical senior living alone.
See your own numberSources: NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System (traffic deaths, all ages); CDC National Center for Health Statistics (unintentional fall deaths, age 65+); JAMA, 2023 (age-adjusted rate, 1999–2020).
Beyond Detection: Fall Prevention
The same sensors that detect a fall can help prevent one — at no added hardware cost, and with nothing for Mom to wear or remember. Maria knows when she gets out of bed, whether her walker moved, whether the medicine cabinet opened, and how her nights are changing over weeks. It does this five ways.
of older adults who use a walker or cane and had fallen weren’t using it when they fell — often because they forgot it, or it wasn’t within reach.
Survey of 262 adults over 60 · IMPART AllianceAt bedtime, Maria checks that the walker is parked by the bed. If she gets up at night and the walker doesn’t move, the light under the bed pulses — a gentle cue at exactly the moment she’d step off without it.
Every Maria Hub comes with a warm LED strip for the bed frame. It glows the moment she gets up — before her feet touch the floor — and stays on until she’s back in bed.
Maria learns when the medicine cabinet usually opens. If it hasn’t, her phone asks gently:
“Did you take your morning medicine?”
More night bathroom trips, slower trips, less walker use, skipped meals — Maria reports the change to the family while there’s still time to act.
“Night bathroom trips went from 2 to 5 this week.”
A small tabletop box reminds her to eat, drink, take her medicine, move and keep the walker at hand — but only when the sensors show she hasn’t already. Included with Maria Pro.
Maria’s sensing is proven on the bench and in our field trials. The prevention features build on it and are in development.
New · Included with Maria Pro
A small tabletop box for the kitchen counter, with a soft light ring, a speaker and one large button. It speaks gentle reminders to Mom — and plays voice messages from the family. Included with Maria Pro at no extra charge.
Speaker only — no microphone, no camera.
Robocalls, a silenced phone, hearing loss — calls get missed. Record a short message in the app and it plays on the box within seconds, repeating until she taps.
“Mom, this is Mary. Please call me, thanks.”
Heard at 2:14 pm
Schedule a few messages ahead of a doctor visit or a pickup — the night before, once she’s up, and 15 minutes out — so you don’t find her still in her pajamas.
“Mary will be there in 15 minutes.”
A tap silences a reminder, confirms she heard your message, and resets her last-activity timer — a simple daily “I’m OK.”
Holding it for 3 seconds sends an emergency alert: Mom, then a Trusted Neighbor, then you, then E911.
Maria Tells is in development; design and details may change.
How Maria Knows and Tells
No camera, no microphone, nothing worn. Maria notices what happens — a bed exit, a toilet visit, the walker moving — and learns what normal looks like for Mom.
The Maria Hub on the bed frame feels the floor vibration of a fall and knows when she hasn’t come back to bed. The toilet sensor covers the other highest-risk moment. Overnight, a caregiver is typically alerted within about 15 minutes.
Sensors on the TV remote, walker, fridge and front door — plus her phone — fill in the day. Any activity resets her last-activity number, so an unusual stretch of quiet stands out fast.
Every Maria sensor has a button she can reach from the floor. If a fall is detected, its light flashes red; one press confirms it and calls for help, and the light turns green to show help is on the way.
Who Maria calls, in order
If she presses an alert button, Maria skips the check-in call and alerts the neighbor and family right away. If she has a home care agency, Maria keeps them informed too.
Most families don’t live in the same neighborhood as Mom — often not even the same city. A Trusted Neighbor can walk over in minutes and help her up.
That also means no fire truck and flashing lights in the driveway for a fall she can recover from. And you choose what the neighbor sees — emergency alerts only, if that’s what Mom prefers.
More Than Falls
Maria’s sensors report specific events — the medicine cabinet opened, the walker moved — not just that someone walked into a room.
Sleep and bathroom patterns on every plan. With Maria Pro: walker use, meals, medication, the TV remote — up to 16 sensors.
Maria & Maria ProEvery activity sensor has a built-in door switch. Maria tells you the moment the front door opens at 2 a.m.
Maria ProThe Hub reads the bedroom temperature every 5 minutes. Set your own limits and hear about a failed furnace or AC before it’s dangerous.
Maria & Maria ProWith her permission, steps, walking steadiness and sleep from Apple Health appear alongside Maria’s home activity. Her watch covers outings; Maria covers home and the night.
Planned · Maria ProThrough Matter, Maria works with Alexa, Google Home and Apple Home: lock the doors at bedtime, unlock them and flash the porch light if a fall is suspected.
Planned · Maria ProShare alert duty on a weekly rotation instead of one person always on call. Mom opts in to everyone in her circle.
Maria & Maria Pro“Mom keeps her independence. We keep watch.”
Plans & Pricing
No long-term contract. Emergency dispatch (E911) is included on both paid plans — never an add-on.
$0
No hardware · uses Mom’s iPhone
Try the idea today. A free app turns Mom’s phone into an activity sensor and shows you her last phone activity at a glance.
$29.95/mo, paid annually
+ $99 one-time hardware kit
Night-time fall detection with alert buttons: bed-frame hub + toilet sensor. Upgradeable to Pro anytime.
$39.95/mo, paid annually
+ $199 one-time hardware kit
Adds day coverage using 4 more sensors (TV remote, walker, fridge, front door) and her phone, plus her last activity, color-coded, on your phone — and Maria Tells, at no extra charge.
| How you pay | Maria | Maria Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly | $34.95/mo | $44.95/mo |
| Quarterly | $32.95/mo | $42.95/mo |
| Annually Best value | $29.95/mo | $39.95/mo |
| Hardware (one-time) | $99 — Hub + toilet sensor | $199 — Hub, toilet sensor, 4-pack + Maria Tells |
| Extra activity sensors | Upgrade to Pro anytime | $29.95 each or $99 4-pack (up to 16) |
Wherever You’re Starting From
Why the smart time to get Maria is before you ever need it — and why no one else has to know it’s there.
Read more For FamiliesHow to bring it up gently — plus a free, word-for-word conversation guide.
Read more How It WorksInstallation, sensors and the care circle — set up by a family member in minutes.
Read moreFor Partners
Aging-in-place remodelers and home care agencies see fall risk up close. Maria gives them a better answer for their clients.
Maria belongs on the same checklist as grab bars and better lighting — and it’s the one item that helps once a fall happens.
Maria covers the hours between visits — without adding another app to a caregiver’s phone.
Field-tested in a 60-day pilot with a Colorado Springs home care agency.
Questions
No. Maria is built into the home: the Hub mounts on the bed frame and plugs into the wall, and the sensors are mounted once and run 2–3 years on a coin battery. Every sensor has an alert button she can press if she wants to — but it’s an option, never a requirement.
Never. Maria senses vibration, motion and timing — a bed exit, a toilet visit, a door opening. Even Maria Tells, the tabletop reminder box, has a speaker but no microphone. Nothing is seen, heard or recorded.
A free app that turns Mom’s iPhone into an activity sensor and shows you, on your own phone, how long it’s been since her last phone activity. It’s a no-cost way to try the idea. It isn’t fall detection: there’s no hardware, no alerts and no calls, and it has gaps at night when her phone sits on the nightstand. Maria Free is launching first on iPhone.
Maria covers the night: the bed-frame Hub and toilet sensor detect falls at the two highest-risk spots, with the full call chain and E911 included. Maria Pro adds day coverage with four more sensors (typically the TV remote, walker, fridge and front door) and her phone, plus the color-coded last-activity number, walker reminders, medication check-ins, front-door alerts and Maria Tells. You can upgrade to Pro anytime by adding the 4-pack — nothing gets replaced.
A small tabletop box with a soft light ring, a speaker and one large button, included with Maria Pro at no extra charge. It gently reminds Mom to eat, drink, take her medicine, move and keep her walker at hand — but only when the sensors show she hasn’t already. It also plays short voice messages from the family. It plugs into a USB outlet, so there’s nothing to charge, and its reminders run on the Maria Hub, so they keep working even if the Wi-Fi goes down.
Yes, with Maria Tells on Maria Pro. Record a short message in the caregiver app and it plays on the box within seconds, with a flashing light, repeating every few minutes until she taps the button. Your app then shows when she heard it. Messages are one-way — there’s no microphone — so she replies by calling you back. If she doesn’t tap and her last-activity timer is running high, Maria can start the call chain.
Mom first, so she can clear a false alarm herself. Then a Trusted Neighbor, then you and the family. If no one responds, Maria dispatches E911 directly. Every call comes from one dedicated local number — save it in everyone’s phone as “Maria Alert” so a 2 a.m. call isn’t screened as spam.
A 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi network and a standard USB wall adapter (5W or more) for the Hub. No internet at her house? A third-party LTE hotspot (about $75, plus about $100 a year for data) gives Maria its own connection.
The battery-powered sensors keep running, and the Hub reconnects automatically when power and internet return. For coverage through short outages, an LTE hotspot with its own battery is the recommended option.
Most families set it up themselves in a few minutes with the Maria app — no technician needed. Many aging-in-place remodelers also install Maria alongside grab bars and lighting, and may add their own installation fee.
No. Monthly plans are month-to-month; quarterly and annual plans are simply paid in advance at a lower rate. Cancel at least 5 days before month-end and you won’t be charged for the next month.
No. Maria is a home-safety and activity product. It reports what it notices but doesn’t diagnose or treat anything, and it isn’t a substitute for medical care or for calling 911 yourself.
Nothing for her to wear, charge or remember. Less to worry about for you.
Maria from $29.95/mo, paid annually · No long-term contract · E911 included