Vitals-360
Continuous AI Patient Monitoring Platform
The Challenge
In behavioral health facilities, patient observation is still largely manual. Staff conduct check-ins on fixed schedules — every 15 minutes in many protocols. What happens between checks is effectively a blind spot. A patient in deterioration won't always present at the moment a staff member walks by. Missed early indicators lead to interventions that arrive too late, avoidable incidents, and the downstream cost of hospital readmissions.
The existing monitoring technology landscape failed behavioral health in a specific way: the hardware was designed for acute care settings — fixed bedside monitors, wired connections, equipment that requires a patient to be stationary. Behavioral health patients move. They sleep in different positions. They resist intrusive monitoring. The hardware had to change before the software could be useful.
The brief was to build a monitoring platform that worked with the patient's natural behavior rather than against it: wearable devices that collect continuously, wireless infrastructure that covers the entire facility, and an AI layer that surfaces meaningful signals rather than flooding staff with noise.
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The Approach
### Smartwatch + BLE Gateway Architecture
Vitals-360 is built on a wearable-first hardware model. Patients wear consumer-grade smartwatches that collect heart rate, SpO2, movement, and sleep data continuously. The data doesn't require a patient to interact with any equipment or remain in a fixed location. BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy) gateways distributed throughout the facility receive the device signal and relay it to the cloud platform in real time.
This architecture solves the mobility problem that makes traditional monitoring hardware unsuitable for behavioral health. Coverage is a function of gateway placement — not cable runs or bedside infrastructure. Facilities can be instrumented without construction or major IT changes.
The Results
The Outcome
Vitals-360 is entering beta in March 2026, targeting behavioral health facilities that need to extend their monitoring capability without proportionally increasing staff costs. The platform addresses a specific gap in a specific market — not because behavioral health was an obvious target for IoT monitoring, but because it was the market where the problem was most acute and existing solutions had most completely failed.
The combination of wearable hardware, real-time analytics, and Kipu EHR integration creates a monitoring capability that didn't exist as a turnkey platform before LumenIQ built it. Facilities get continuous visibility. Patients get less intrusive monitoring. Staff get alerts that mean something.
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