A glance is enough to know they're okay.
Aro phones your parent every day and tells you, in one sentence, how she is.
Screens from the Aro app, shown with a made-up family. Readings come from published research recordings because the pendant isn't connected yet.
Aro calls her
A warm check-in each morning, and a gentle nudge about her tablets.
You get one sentence
Open the app and know how she is in a second.
If she falls, Aro calls her first
Only if she can't be reached does the rest of the family hear.
Hear what a check-in sounds like
Half a minute: Aro greets her and reminds her about her tablets.
A staged example with a made-up name and two synthetic voices, not a real call.
Read the call
- Aro: Good morning Margaret, it's Aro. I just wanted to see how you slept. How are you feeling this morning?
- Margaret: Oh, good morning, dear. I slept well, thank you. I've already been out in the garden.
- Aro: That sounds lovely. What are you growing this year?
- Margaret: Tomatoes, mostly, and a few roses my daughter gave me.
- Aro: She sounds thoughtful. Just a gentle reminder about your morning tablets. Have you had a chance to take them?
- Margaret: Oh, not yet. I'll do that now.
- Aro: Lovely. I'll let your family know we spoke. Have a good day, Margaret.
Privacy and trust
Not a medical device
Aro never gives medical advice. In an emergency, call 911.
We don't sell your data
Your family's records run Aro for your family and nothing else.
She knows, and she agrees
Aro is meant to be set up with her knowledge, never behind her back, and when it calls it says who asked. It doesn't yet record her agreement in the app, so have that conversation with her first.
More on privacy and security
Your family's data stays your family's
Every family circle is its own isolated account. Aro checked, deliberately, that one family's data can never be reached through another's — every place the app touches a senior's record verifies which circle is asking first.
We don't sell your data
Aro has no advertising business and no data-sale business. What your family records — calls, medications, alerts — is used to run the product for your family, and for nothing else.
Where things stand today
Aro treats this data as sensitive as health records, even though it isn't formally regulated as a medical device: encrypted in transit, access-logged authorization on every request, and a security hardening pass already completed. It has not yet had a professional third-party security review — that's planned before this handles real families' data at scale, and we'd rather say so than stay quiet about it.
Built on real research data
The pendant is still being built. Until it ships, readings come from published research recordings of real adults aged 68 to 95. Medication, calls and alerts are your family's own.
Which datasets?
Heart rate from PhysioNet's Fantasia database, movement from HAR70+, sleep from Sleep-EDF, and wrist-worn fall data from WEDA-FALL. Nothing in the app is a randomly generated number. Sensor readings become hers when the pendant arrives.
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