About

Inventor & Vision

StrollerSense™ was created by Clifford Mathieu, a product developer and patented inventor focused on prevention-first safety systems and human-centered design.

Prior to StrollerSense™, Clifford developed and secured a patent for a joystick-based smart mouse designed to translate subtle human input into precise, intentional control. After completing that work, he began exploring how the same interface logic could be applied beyond computing to real-world products people rely on every day.

To explore these possibilities, Clifford engaged a robotics systems consultant and worked through structured creative exercises drawn from Creative Growth Games by Eugene Raudsepp. These sessions were aimed at identifying environments where the technology would feel natural rather than forced. Around the same time, Clifford and his wife welcomed their second child and strollers became part of daily life. In that context, the idea of placing a small, intuitive control interface on a stroller emerged organically.

The safety dimension became clear through personal experience. After briefly stepping away from a stroller outside his residence, Clifford returned to find it had moved—quietly, without any warning. Nothing serious occurred but the absence of an alert highlighted a gap that exists in many everyday environments: moments where attention shifts briefly and systems offer no feedback until it’s too late.

With guidance from the robotics consultant, Clifford built an early prototype using an umbrella stroller to validate the core sensing and alert logic. That prototype confirmed two things: unintended movement could be reliably detected, and detection alone was not enough. Real-world safety required a system that communicated clearly and immediately, without requiring users to change habits or remember procedures.

That insight led to the development of the StrollerSense™ Control Bar—a full-size stroller system that integrates motion sensing, presence awareness, and intuitive controls into a single, sealed unit. The Control Bar incorporates a refined version of the same joystick technology originally developed for the smart mouse, adapted here to navigate alerts and system status without phones, apps, or external wiring.

Today, StrollerSense™ has validated its core logic and defined its production architecture. Clifford continues to lead product development and holds the underlying intellectual property. The project is now entering funded development, with pilot deployments planned in public environments such as airports and hotels, beginning in Barbados.

Vision:
To make quiet prevention a standard layer of safety in everyday public spaces before panic has a chance to begin.