Canary Care helps Domiciliary Care agencies deliver better outcomes for clients while managing increasing demand and staffing pressures. By using activity insight and real-time alerts to prioritise visits based on genuine need, Canary Care helps teams manage schedules more efficiently, and provide care when it’s needed most
Domiciliary Care
Home care technology for Domiciliary Care
Care visits only show a one-hour snapshot of someone’s day. Canary Care shows what’s happening during the other 23 hours. Give your team the insight and reassurance they’re missing, without adding extra workload.
Monitoring daily routines
Around-the-clock visibility between care visits
Our home care technology helps care professionals understand what’s really happening at home – helping identify subtle behavioural changes earlier, reducing the risk of safeguarding incidents between visits, and helping teams move from reactive to proactive care.
Problem
Care workers are often working at capacity, and it's simply not realistic to care for every client 24 hours a day. While daily or weekly visits support vulnerable people in the moment, they don't show patterns of behaviour throughout the day, meaning deterioration is harder to spot.
Solution
Canary Care’s home care technology provides continuous insight into daily routines, helping Domiciliary Care teams understand how someone is coping between visits. Passive monitoring with alerts for unusual behaviour help improve the accuracy of plans and makes care more proactive, rather than reactive.
Result
This enables efficient resource management and more time for compassionate, person‑centred care by filling the long gaps that short, time‑pressured visits can’t cover - making it easier to prioritise support and act before issues escalate.
Our sensor insights
What activity does Canary Care monitor?
Our home care technology is an alternative to telecare and wearable devices. Our sensors will give you all the benefits and actionable insight, without the cameras or microphones – because preserving privacy at every step is our priority.
Daily movement
Monitor general activity around the home to get a picture of daily routines and habits – perfect for assessing mobility and knowing when something doesn’t look quite right.
Night-time activity
Understand someone’s sleeping schedule, and set up custom alerts if movement is detected, or light levels spike, during certain hours.
Bathroom visits
Determine if a shower or bath can be used independently with humidity sensors, or set up time-based notifications for when you’re concerned a bathroom visit is taking longer than it should.
Door usage
Place sensors on doors around the house to monitor room usage – or on front and back doors so care providers can see if somebody leaves the house unexpectedly, in real time.
Medication monitoring
Keep track of when medicine is being taken by placing vibration sensors on medicine drawers or cabinets – with alerts sent to the Canary Care Portal every time they’re opened and closed.
Temperature changes
Place humidity sensors around the home to check warmth and determine if the conditions are conducive to mould growth, making it easier for early intervention.
Daily movement
Monitor general activity around the home to get a picture of daily routines and habits – perfect for assessing mobility and knowing when something doesn’t look quite right.
Night-time activity
Understand someone’s sleeping schedule, and set up custom alerts if movement is detected, or light levels spike, during certain hours.
Bathroom visits
Determine if a shower or bath can be used independently with humidity sensors, or set up time-based notifications for when you’re concerned a bathroom visit is taking longer than it should.
Door usage
Place sensors on doors around the house to monitor room usage – or on front and back doors so care providers can see if somebody leaves the house unexpectedly, in real time.
Medication monitoring
Keep track of when medicine is being taken by placing vibration sensors on medicine drawers or cabinets – with alerts sent to the Canary Care Portal every time they’re opened and closed.
Temperature changes
Place humidity sensors around the home to check warmth and determine if the conditions are conducive to mould growth, making it easier for early intervention.
Why choose Canary Care?
Canary Care benefits for Domiciliary Care teams
Canary Care gives Domiciliary Care teams the visibility they lack between home care visits, helping them spot changes earlier, reduce unnecessary welfare checks, and support families with greater confidence – all without stretch staff who are already at capacity.
Spot changing needs earlier
Changes in daily routines often signal declining health or wellbeing. Activity monitoring helps teams identify issues such as reduced mobility, disturbed sleep or changes in behaviour sooner – enabling faster intervention before they lead to incidents or safeguarding concerns. Ultimately helping deliver safer, more responsive care.
Use care visits more effectively
With better insight into how clients are coping between visits, carers can prioritise time where, and when, it’s needed most. This helps home care agencies reduce unnecessary welfare visits while maintaining client safety, freeing up capacity across your care team.
Provide reassurance to families
Families often worry about what happens when carers leave. Our home care technology provides reassurance that loved ones are safe and maintaining healthy routines at home, even when nobody else is there – reducing inbound queries and pressure on your team.
Real impact
Outcomes for Domiciliary Care providers
Making use of Canary Care’s home care technology is equally as impactful for care agencies and care providers, as it is for clients and their family members. Increased visibility leads to safer, faster and more efficient support.
Spot early warning signs such as increased night-time activity, reduced movement or unusual routines before they escalate into incidents – reducing the risk of safeguarding incidents between visits.
Support care reviews and reassessments with objective data showing how routines are changing over time, reducing the risk of complaints or disputes from concerned family members. You’ll have objective data to back up every care decision, evidencing that each client is receiving the care they need to continue living independently, and when it’s the right time to reduce support.
Monitoring insights and objective activity data can help care agencies evidence an improving perceived quality of care to commissioners, Local Authorities, and during CQC inspections. This strengthens professional judgement and provides clear evidence if decisions are ever questioned.
Offer families enhanced reassurance services that provide visibility into their loved one’s wellbeing between visits. This creates a new value-added service that can generate additional revenue for care providers.
Save tens of thousands per client with Canary Care
Assuming you have 100 clients, and an hourly rate for care of £25, installing home care technology from Canary Care can pay for itself and generate £18,000 of extra revenue after just 1 year.
Getting started
Simple to deploy. Easy to scale.
Canary Care is designed to fit into your existing workflows without adding extra pressure to your team. Install your sensors in minutes and start delivering insight immediately.
Step 1
Consultation
We work with your team to understand your service and identify the right monitoring setup.
Step 2
Installation
Sensors can be installed and connected to the Canary Care Hub quickly with minimal disruption to the client’s home.
Step 3
Insight
Care teams can access intuitive dashboards from the Canary Care Portal, showing activity patterns and alerts in real-time
Step 4
Support
Training and support will always be available, to ensure your teams get the most value from the platform long-term.
Step 1
Consultation
We work with your team to understand your service and identify the right monitoring setup.
Step 2
Installation
Sensors can be installed and connected to the Canary Care Hub quickly with minimal disruption to the client’s home.
Step 3
Insight
Care teams can access intuitive dashboards from the Canary Care Portal, showing activity patterns and alerts in real-time
Step 4
Support
Training and support will always be available, to ensure your teams get the most value from the platform long-term.
Real-world impact
We’ve got real life examples of how our home care technology has helped social care teams support living independently – but please, don’t just take our word for it.
Canary Care stories
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Discover how we can support your care services
Canary Care helps Domiciliary Care providers deliver more impactful care, stronger oversight and better outcomes for clients and families. Speak to our team to explore how.
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Frequently asked questions
If you’ve got any questions about how Canary Care can work for you, we’re here to help. Check out our common questions, and head to our support page for information on kit installation, and ongoing Canary Care Portal use.
Canary Care gives you access to insights that go beyond home visits – providing a well-rounded and full understanding of how someone is coping on their own throughout the whole day.
From monitoring movement and night-time activity to room humidity and bathroom usage, our sensors provide a 24/7 overview into someone’s daily routine – discreetly, without microphones, cameras or pendants. This means you can spot trends, changes in behaviour and check in regularly, without physically checking up.
Our standard Canary Care package comes with everything you’ll need to support independent living for a vulnerable individual.
With a central hub and a full range of home sensors, as well as access to easy-to-understand dashboards in our Canary Care Portal, you’ll be able to make the right care decisions every time, with data you can trust. Included in the package is the following:
- Canary Care Hub
- Power supply unit
- 6 x multi-function sensors
- 1 x humidity sensor
- 4 x vibration sensors
- 2 x magnets
- 1 x smart plug
For organisations or care providers looking to implement Canary Care technology across a client base, reach out to us using our simple contact form to discuss bespoke packages.
With better insight into how clients are coping between visits, carers can prioritise time where, and when, it’s needed most. This helps home care agencies reduce unnecessary welfare visits while maintaining client safety, freeing up capacity across your care team.