Is mom (or anyone) on the floor?

A Ring camera frame from testing: someone on the floor, only their legs visible past the coffee table, with the dog nearby

IsMomOnTheFloor is an automated system that repeatedly checks your Ring cameras and lets you know if someone might be on the floor.

The idea came from personal need: My mom lives with my brother. She is frail. There are parts of the day when our mom is home alone, and even if my brother is home he may not be able to hear her. We have cameras in the house but we don't check them very often. So the idea came up to make a system that watches the cameras and lets us know if our mom might be on the floor. Sitting, crouching, or lying on the floor is not something she does voluntarily.— Lance

How it works

Use the cameras you already have
Connect your Ring cameras — no new hardware.
Scheduled still images, never audio or video
Roughly every 10 minutes, our system takes a still image from each camera. AI software analyzes each image and determines if someone might be on the floor. It's not always right but it's much better than never looking.
You decide what to do
If the AI software thinks someone is on the floor, then we send an alert (with the image) to the contact you choose. We do NOT call 911 or send help for you.

As private as internet-connected cameras can be

Still images... never audio or video
Machine-watched, not human-watched
No person sits and watches your cameras.
No image library
Images are analyzed and then deleted from our systems within minutes. (Downstream from us, our AI providers receive each image, and your email provider receives any image that we send to you. See our Privacy Policy.)
With consent
We monitor cameras that see a person only with their informed consent.

What it is, and is not

IsMomOnTheFloor is a wellness and peace-of-mind aid — not a medical device, and not an emergency service. It will NOT recognize every position & location of a person on the floor. It's meant to add to, not replace, a dedicated safety device like a monitored pendant or fall detection watch.

I did lots of testing over a couple of months to see if different AI systems would see me in various positions & locations on my living room floor, and in various lighting. Overall, the AI is "pretty good". It did NOT catch every example of me on the floor, but it's much better than what my brother and I had before, which was us checking our cameras now & then.— Lance

Get started

Create your account by signing in with your email, then connect your cameras from the Ring app: Menu → Apps → Ring Appstore.

Connecting requires you to be the owner of at least one AC-powered Ring camera with an active Ring subscription.

Early testing images

Early test: sitting on the living-room floor against the wall at night

Early test: lying behind the coffee table — only legs visible under it

Early test: lying on the floor at night (infrared), head toward the camera

Early test: lying on the floor across the room at night (infrared)

Early test: sitting on the kitchen floor beside the island

Early test: lying face-down on the living-room floor in daylight

Early test: lying with only legs visible past the coffee table, dog on the rug

Early test: sitting on the kitchen floor with the dog

Early test: curled on the rug beside the coffee table in the evening

Early test: lying beside the coffee table at night (infrared)

Early test: lying near the kitchen at night (infrared), far from the camera

Early test: only feet visible at the end of the couch