Purpose-built hardware. Vertically integrated.
Every device in the Vantedge ecosystem is designed, engineered, assembled, and tested in-house. Purpose-built for skilled nursing environments. Supplements your existing safety systems — never replaces them.
How the Hardware Connects
No central server. No single point of failure. Every room is a supercomputer. The mesh network is the backbone. Intelligence is distributed everywhere.
It's Not a Smartwatch. It's Their Watch.
The number one design rule: nobody should look at a resident and think “that person is being monitored.” Pulse looks like a classic timepiece — because 95% of the day, that's exactly what it is. Every resident picks their own face during onboarding.
The 466×466 AMOLED display with true-black pixels makes the screen indistinguishable from a real watch bezel. When the screen shows an analog face, it IS a classic watch. Residents choose during onboarding and can change anytime — “Vanessa, change my watch face.”
Roman numeral, field watch, minimalist, railroad, art deco
Family photos, grandkid drawings — from Grandma’s Postcard straight to the wrist
Patriotic, floral garden, ocean waves, night sky, vintage car dashboard
Extra-large time, high contrast, large date window — for low vision residents
“It's not a smartwatch. It's your watch. It just happens to watch over you.”
Not a Medical Device. A Comfort Object With a Brain.
Quarter-sized. Tiny OLED display showing family photos and grandkid drawings straight from Grandma's Postcard. Whisper to Vanessa and get a private answer only you can hear. SOS at a touch. Men clip it. Women chain it. Everyone loves it.
Pulse is the brain — all health monitoring, connectivity, and intelligence. Gem is the heart — the emotional connection to family that the resident touches, looks at, and whispers to. Always BLE-paired. If Gem is out of range, Pulse functions fully. If Pulse is charging, Gem handles SOS and fall detection through the nearest Dock or Beacon.
Every Room is a Supercomputer
Nightstand clock. Tablet. Lamp. Charger. Intercom. Security sensor. Network node. Smart computer. One device.
Every Dock is a full node in a distributed computing cluster. Each stores its resident's complete data locally, syncs across the mesh network, and backs up to neighboring Docks automatically. If one fails, the network absorbs its workload. If internet drops, every Dock keeps running independently.
Vanessa's Voice Fills the Room
A dedicated speaker — not a tablet speaker. Warm alto tuned for aging ears with high-frequency hearing loss. Pastel 3D-printed housing in six colors. Sits on the nightstand next to the Dock, paired via BLE.
Essentials and Complete tiers include white. Premier residents choose their color.
Every Hallway. Every Exit. Every Angle.
Typical deployment: 10-12 per facility — hallways, dining room, activity room, reception, garden, exits.
Compliance: Smoke/CO supplemental, ties into existing fire panel. Wall-mounted units comply with NFPA 101 (<4" protrusion, >80" height). UL listed.
Privacy by Design: Common areas and exteriors only. Never in resident rooms. Never in bathrooms. Never in staff break rooms. HIPAA compliant. All local. No cloud. No family access to feeds.
Survey-ready: Pre-installation site maps document exact camera positions and fields of view. Available for state survey review.
Typical deployment: 15-20 per facility — all entrances, parking, reception, hallways, dining, activity areas, outdoor spaces.
Three Layers. Zero Downtime.
Dedicated business 5G connection. Full-speed backbone for all facility operations — video, data sync, cloud backup, remote diagnostics.
Automatic failover on primary loss. Critical traffic only: emergency alerts, fall notifications, family alerts. Also enables remote diagnostics — zero on-site IT.
Every Pulse has its own cellular connection. If the entire building network fails — every watch can still call 911, alert family, and report location independently.
WiFi 6E mesh between all Docks creates dense room-level coverage with automatic data redundancy
High-power repeaters extend coverage to hallways, common areas, outdoor spaces, and parking
BLE 5.3 connects Pulse watches, Gem lockets, door sensors, and Eye cameras to the nearest Dock or Beacon
Vanessa — A Librarian in Every Room
Not a voice assistant. A dedicated AI presence that knows each resident by name, remembers their family, learns their patterns, and never has a bad day.
Vanessa's intelligence runs on each room's Dock — an NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano with 40 TOPS of AI processing. That's 3× more powerful than the iPhone in your pocket. A 50-bed facility has 2,000 TOPS of distributed AI — more than most hospitals.
Privacy guarantee: Unlike Alexa, Siri, and Google Assistant, Vanessa processes all audio locally. No voice recordings are sent to the cloud. Ever. The resident's voice never leaves the building.
Learned over time from conversations, family app data, and staff input. Stored locally on the room's Dock — never in the cloud.
Vanessa doesn't just answer questions. Each Dock continuously analyzes patterns — like a firefighter who doesn't wait for the alarm but watches for the conditions that cause fires.
Every prediction runs locally on the room's Dock. A 50-bed building has 2,000 TOPS of distributed AI — more processing power than most hospitals — and it never sleeps.
35-Bed Pilot Configuration
Complete hardware package. Designed and built by Vantedge. Installed in 2-3 days.
V2 Expansion Sensors
Designed and ready to deploy post-pilot. Wireless, battery powered, BLE connection to nearest Dock.
Designed, Built, and Supported by Vantedge
Every product designed from the ground up for skilled nursing. Purpose-built form factors, not repurposed consumer electronics. Rated for 78°F+ rooms, high humidity, and daily disinfectant cleaning.
Built on industry-leading silicon — Qualcomm, NVIDIA, Nordic Semiconductor. Every wall-powered device is UL listed, flame-retardant, rated for continuous operation. 3-year warranty. 48-hour replacement SLA.
Before we drill a single hole, our team conducts a full site survey: camera placements, mounting clearances, electrical load, cable runs, NFPA 101 compliance, egress verification. Documentation for state surveys.
Vantedge runs alongside your existing nurse call, fire alarm, and security infrastructure. We don’t touch your systems. We add a layer of wellness monitoring and family connectivity on an independent network.
One Company. Every Device. Zero Dependencies.
Vantedge designs, manufactures, and supports every piece of hardware in the ecosystem. From the watch on the wrist to the locket on the chest to the speaker on the nightstand. Four devices the resident touches. Everything else is invisible.