Watched over by the room. Never by a camera.
We’re building the most private way to keep people safe at home — an ambient sense, woven into the Wi-Fi that’s already there, that protects without watching.
The care we need is colliding with the help we have.
Across Norway and the Nordics, the number of people who'll need care is rising fast, while the number of people available to provide it is not. Norway's own workforce projections point to a shortfall of tens of thousands of health-and-care roles within a generation. Something has to give — and the honest answer is that technology will have to carry more of the load.
But the tools meant to help have asked people to trade away too much. Cameras turn a bedroom into a surveilled space. Wearables get forgotten on the nightstand by the people who need them most. Hourly checks disturb the rest they're meant to protect. We started Stillsense because we believed safety shouldn't cost someone their dignity or their privacy.
The workforce-shortfall figures describe the national picture (Norwegian workforce projections / Helsepersonellkommisjonen), not a Stillsense statistic.
The best technology disappears.
We think the right way to watch over someone is to not watch them at all — to sense, quietly and invisibly, only what's needed to know they're alright, and to keep even that in their own home. No lens. No recording. No device to wear. Just an awareness that fills the room and stays out of the way.
That belief shapes every decision we make: privacy by construction, processing at the edge, and an honest line between what we can prove and what we're still working on.
From the west coast of Norway, for the way the Nordics care.
Stillsense is built in Møre og Romsdal, close to the municipalities, care services, and welfare-technology community we serve — and to a Nordic standard for privacy and trust that we think the rest of the world is moving toward, not away from. Being here keeps us honest: our first users are our neighbours.
How we work.
Five principles that resolve every decision we make.
Calm over loud.
We build technology that stays quiet until it matters.
Privacy you can see.
No camera is not a feature; it's the foundation.
Honest about limits.
We say what we can prove, and flag what we can't.
For everyone in the room.
Designed to be legible and usable by the oldest person in the home and the busiest nurse on the ward.
Useful before impressive.
A few things that quietly work beat a long list that doesn't.
The people behind the quiet.
Stillsense was founded by a team with roots in Norwegian technology, infrastructure, and care, united by a conviction that the next decade of safety at home should be built on sensing, not surveillance.
Erlend Sognli Høyem
CEO
Magnus Kvendseth Øye
CTO
Build the quiet with us.
Care, platform, or team
Whether you want to bring Stillsense to your care service, partner on the platform, or join the team — we'd love to talk.