Digital supervision is proven. The barrier was cost.

The case for sensing-based night supervision in care is not a hypothesis. Digital supervision (digitalt tilsyn) is already the welfare-technology solution with the largest documented gains for Norwegian municipalities — an estimated NOK 1.1 billion a year, averaging around 3.4 full-time roles per municipality (KS / Oslo Economics, 2024).

So if the benefit is proven, why isn't it everywhere?

The barrier has been hardware

Camera- and radar-based supervision need a dedicated unit in every room and an installer to fit it — typically NOK 20,000–40,000 per resident room (Elektro 24-7, on Norwegian nursing-home digitalisation). That maths works in a few high-risk rooms. It falls apart across a whole nursing home, and it was never going to happen in home care, where a sensor in every room was never realistic.

Changing the maths

Stillsense retrofits onto the Wi-Fi a home already has, with a small, low-cost sensor and minutes of setup. The hardware cost drops by an order of magnitude, and whole-home coverage becomes realistic — including in home care.

That's the point: not to invent a new benefit, but to bring a proven one within reach at the scale services actually need.

Start with a pilot

For care services, the real entry point isn't a price list — it's a pilot. Begin with one ward or a handful of home-care users, prove the value in your own setting, then scale. Many municipalities run that first pilot largely on national funding through Helseteknologiordningen.

The NOK 1.1 bn and 3.4-roles figures describe digital supervision sector-wide (KS / Oslo Economics), not a Stillsense-measured result.