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Too many alerts is its own problem
Silvie Team·5 min read
Too many false alerts is a real problem. One cause is normal movement flagged as a fall. After a few, families stop checking. Then they can miss a real one.
Why false alarms are a problem
Every false alarm makes the family trust the system a little less. Get a "fall detected" alert for the dog on the floor a few times, and you stop looking. Then the device is working, but it is not helping anyone.
If you learn to ignore alerts, they can't help you.
Alerting on the right things
The answer is fewer alerts, about the right things. There are two kinds of updates: the immediate (a fall) and the trend (activity, a pattern drifting). Daily activity can wait in the app until you look.
In the Silvie app, the people you invite can mark each fall alert True Fall, False Alarm or Not Sure. See what the app shows.
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A small sensor on the wall that detects falls and shows daily activity. No cameras, no wearables.
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