Acoustic Monitoring
Why night-time care matters
Traditional night-time checks often involve carers entering rooms at regular intervals. While done with care, these checks can:
- Disturb residents’ sleep, affecting mood, memory, and wellbeing
- Miss incidents that happen between checks, such as falls or restlessness
- Take up time that could be spent on meaningful, personalised care
With increasing care needs and a focus on quality, OSJCT has adopted Human-Intelligence-led (HI) monitoring. This approach uses technology to extend the vigilance of trained staff, rather than replace them, ensuring care is timely and compassionate.
Keeping our residents safe
Reducing falls
- Our systems, combined with staff expertise, help prevent incidents before they occur.
- Homes using Adaptive Care’s technology have seen significant reductions in night-time falls.
Protecting sleep and dignity
- Residents are disturbed only when necessary.
- Better sleep supports wellbeing, particularly for those living with dementia.
Responsive, personalised care
- Staff respond immediately to alerts, rather than following a rigid schedule.
- Care is tailored to each resident’s needs, keeping them safe and comfortable.
Data-informed support
- Night-time monitoring provides insight into sleep patterns and behaviour.
- This information allows our care teams to anticipate needs and provide truly personalised support.
I feel very safe living here. Staff are very kind and they look after me very well.
Current Resident
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Our approach in practice
Across OSJCT homes, Adaptive Care technology is integrated seamlessly into our night-time routines:
- Local monitoring allows staff within each home to respond quickly to residents’ needs.
- Centralised monitoring provides specialist oversight across multiple sites, supporting consistent, high-quality care.
Homes using this approach report calmer nights for residents, fewer falls, and greater reassurance for families. Staff can focus on meaningful care rather than repetitive checks creating a safer, warmer environment for everyone.
Putting residents first
At OSJCT, technology is just one part of our commitment to residents. Every alert is interpreted by trained professionals who prioritise dignity, empathy, and personalised care.
With OSJCT, you can have peace of mind knowing your loved one is safe, supported, and cared for through the night.
Acoustic Monitoring FAQs
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In the healthcare sector, acoustic monitoring can be used to monitor a resident during sleep, helping to diagnose conditions like sleep disorders, lung diseases through the analysis of breathing sounds and even to prevent falls.
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Residents can benefit from acoustic monitoring in several ways, especially from better sleep cycles. Due to the lack of disturbance from colleagues periodically checking in on them, residents sleep better through the night. Better nights mean better days and an improvement in overall health and wellbeing.
Residents also gain a sense of security from knowing that colleagues have eyes and ears in their rooms via the acoustic monitoring system and visual monitoring solutions.
Colleagues will be ready to attend the room if a care intervention is needed, allowing them to respond quicky – reducing the amount of potential falls and the time it takes for assistance to arrive.
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Colleagues can benefit from acoustic monitoring in several ways, as it can enhance resident care, safety, and overall operational efficiency. For example, this technology can help to improve response times to falls, vocal distress, seizures, and other emergencies. Acoustic monitoring also reduces the amount of time spent making unnecessary in-room checks, giving colleagues more time to deliver direct, person-centred care to residents.
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Acoustic monitoring works through the installation of special sensors that are installed in a resident’s room. The sensor monitors the sounds in the room and looks for unusual patterns that may indicate a potential incident or sign of distress. When any sound profile exceeds its individually set threshold, an alert is sent to a central station where the sound recording can be analysed and then a message and instruction sent to a caregiver’s handset if an intervention is required.
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Yes. Falls prevention has been proven to reduce by up to 80%. As colleagues are alerted as soon as a resident is about to get out of bed for example, they can proactively provide assistance, which significantly reduces the number of fall incidents.
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With acoustic monitoring the system passively listens into the room during the evening and alerts on any sounds made above a set level. This means the resident gets an uninterrupted nights sleep and are less likely to get up in the night which could potentially cause a fall. They are also more fully rested when they wake up and generally healthier and happier due to this.
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No, the visual monitoring cameras never record and are only accessed in the event of an alert being triggered to allow caregivers to get immediate eyes and ears (with Acoustic Monitoring) on the resident, should assistance be required. These initial seconds are sometimes crucial in preventing an accident, fall or injury or indeed allowing care givers to get to a resident in the shortest time possible.