While the Apple Watch is a great smart watch with a few life safety features, it is not a dedicated life safety device for seniors like the Kanega Watch:

🚲The Kanega Watch is designed to catch falls from seniors, not just hard falls or crashes while riding mountain bikes.

💎 The Kanega Watch is designed to be easy to use, without fiddly touch screens or complicated apps running on a tiny screen. Everything is controlled via a single button, or via voice control. The speaker is loud to support wearers with hearing impairment, and the bright, high-contrast display makes it easier to read for older eyes.

🚒 While the Apple Watch gets help via 911, the Kanega Watch connects to a US-based, five-diamond certified emergency monitoring center. Unlike 911, these monitoring center operators know who you are, can bypass 911 to directly dispatch emergency services, and can provide important information to first responders such as drug allergies and door codes / hidden key locations. They can also call friends and family members to assist with minor emergencies.

🔋 Apple Watches must be removed to charge, leaving wearers unprotected for part of their day. Our patented, swappable battery system means the Kanega Watch keeps wearers safe 24/7, including during trips to the bathroom at night when Apple Watches are often charging.

• ⌚ Unlike ugly, embarrasing-to-wear pendants, the Kanega Watch is a sleek smart watch, so no one will know you are wearing a medical alert device.
• 🔋 Other systems must be removed to charge, leaving wearers unprotected for part of their day. Our patented, swappable battery system means the Kanega Watch keeps them safe 24/7, including during trips to the bathroom at night when other devices are charging. No other device has this feature.
• 📞 Other medical alert watches and pendants rely only on cellular signals to get you help when you need it. The Kanega Watch is the only life safety device that uses both cellular and your home WiFi to ensure you have full safety coverage of your home, even if your residence suffers from weak cellular signals.
• 🚒 Unlike traditional smart watches, the Kanega Watch is a dedicated life safety device that connects to a US-based, five-diamond certified emergency monitoring center. Unlike 911, these monitoring center operators know who you are, can bypass 911 to directly dispatch emergency services, and can provide important information to first responders such as drug allergies and door codes / hidden key locations. They can also call friends and family members to assist with minor emergencies.
• 💎 The Kanega Watch was designed from the ground up to be easy to use. Help is available via 3 ways: voice commands, holding the crown button, and automatic fall detection. The Kanega Watch is controlled via a single, simple crown button or voice commands instead of a fiddly touch screen and confusing apps. This makes it easy to use the Kanega Watch every day and during emergencies.

You can read independent reviews of the Kanega Watch on sites such as the New York Times Wirecutter, which has included the Kanega Watch among its recommended medical alert devices.

Kanega Watch customers can also leave reviews on Trustpilot, where you can read real experiences from users and families.

Some review sites include paid placements or compensation that can influence rankings. We encourage you to review multiple sources and understand how each site evaluates products before making a decision.

1. With the Kanega Watch, you have 3 ways to get help in an emergency–button, voice and fall detection. All these alerts go to our US-based 24/7 monitoring center. The agent who receives that alert will try and speak to the wearer through the watch. The agent will say “Hi, this is X from UnaliWear, do you need help?”
2. If the wearer is responsive, the wearer can speak to the agent and direct whatever care is needed; from “call my neighbor to help me off the floor” to “call EMS, Police or Fire” or even “call my daughter and have her come over to get the blankets from the top of the closet” (this really happened). The agent does what the wearer asks.
3. If the wearer is not responsive, the agent will call the wearer’s phone number and, if there is no response, immediately call the first listed emergency contact (as listed in the wearer’s profile) – we recommend that is someone who lives nearby. The agent will say “Hi this is X from UnaliWear. We just received an alert from (wearer) and (wearer) is not responding. Are you able to check on (wearer)?”  Note: It’s not infrequent where the emergency contact is in the same house as the wearer and didn’t know the wearer had fallen in the garage.
   1. If the answer is no or if no emergency contacts answer the call, the agent will dispatch local emergency services to the wearer’s location. The agent has the same access to EMS as 911 does, so it is not an extra call to 911, so it saves a step. In addition, the agent can also provide EMS with the wearer’s medical info—such as medicine allergies, health conditions, etc.; and, if the wearer is home, can even provide spare key location or lock box info, so EMS does not have to break down the door. This ensures the EMS response can be faster and more informed than a generic 911 dispatch.
4. If EMS is dispatched, the agent will inform all the emergency contacts via phone of what has taken place. Note that our monitoring center agents call from the same phone number, so the wearer and all emergency contacts can add this number to their phone contact list, so they know it is not spam.