About
Nurse call hasn't really changed since the 1960s.
A button, a wire, a light over a door. It was a good design. It's just that everything around it — who lives in these buildings, how many staff there are, what a computer can do in a room — has changed completely, and the button hasn't.
What we believe
The call is a conversation, not a signal.
Nobody should wait in silence
The gap between pressing a button and hearing a human voice is the most frightening part of a call. It costs nothing to fill it, and we should.
The safety path never depends on the cloud
If the internet is down, a resident must still be able to call for help. Everything clever we build sits alongside that path, never inside it.
Privacy is the resident's decision
Not the vendor's, and not the building's. Residents choose what their room device can see and hear, and they can change it from their own phone.
Who's building it
A small team in Portland.
VoiceCare is built by CogWheel Software LLC. We do the hardware, the edge AI, and the software — a deliberate choice, because a nurse call system stitched together from three vendors fails at the seams.
We're at pilot stage: real hardware in real rooms, working with operators who want to shape it before it's finished. If that's interesting to you, we'd like to talk.
Investors
Two curves crossing.
The number of people who need care is rising faster than the number of people available to give it. At the same time, the AI that can help — speech, vision, conversation — got small enough and cheap enough to live in the room, on hardware that costs less than a nurse call station's wiring.
We're building the system that sits where those two curves cross. If you invest in aging, care delivery, or edge AI, we'd welcome a conversation.