by davidcrilly | Oct 15, 2026 | Hardware, Prototyping, Smart Care
When you start designing a non-intrusive ambient monitoring system for senior care, your first instinct as a technologist is to look at the commercial consumer market. You go online and look at off-the-shelf Zigbee, Z-Wave, and Tuya sensors. And very quickly, you run...
by davidcrilly | Sep 18, 2026 | Business, Founder Story, Operations
Yesterday, September 17, 2026, an official piece of paper from the Oklahoma Secretary of State landed in my inbox: STAG NODE LLC is officially a recognized, registered domestic entity. For months, StagNode existed as a loosely organized amalgamation of homelab...
by davidcrilly | Sep 2, 2026 | Architecture, Privacy, Smart Care
If you walk down the smart home aisle of any electronics store or browse the current crop of senior safety products, you will notice an unsettling pattern: almost every single solution relies on eyes, ears, and someone else’s computer. Want to know if your aging...
by davidcrilly | Aug 26, 2026 | Data Science, Hardware, Smart Care
I have a confession about how my brain works: I cannot look at the physical world without seeing sequences and mathematical series. I completed all the classwork for a Master’s degree in Applied and Computational Mathematics (short of the thesis—a classic ADHD...
by davidcrilly | Aug 14, 2026 | Family, Founder Story, Smart Care
If you have parents or in-laws in their late 70s or 80s, you already know the knot in the pit of your stomach that I’m talking about. It’s the silent background anxiety that hums along under every phone call. You ask how they’re doing. They tell you they’re fine. They...
