For Residents
A clear and predictable entry experience that applies expectations consistently and respectfully.
Protect the space. Preserve the peace.
Everyone in your program deserves a place where they can feel safe and supported. SoberAuth helps make your expectations visible and consistent, bringing greater clarity to accountability so your team can focus on what matters most: helping people rebuild their lives.
Guided alcohol testing, connected door access, and timely staff awareness in one unified experience.
Consistent Expectations
Keep your program's expectations clear and consistent.
Clearer Visibility
Know what happened when it matters.
Support When Needed
Bring your team in when something needs attention.
Why SoberAuth
Clear expectations make difficult moments easier.
In a behavioral health environment, consistency matters. Residents deserve to understand what is expected, staff need reliable context when something requires attention, and program leaders need confidence that expectations remain consistent.
One difficult moment can affect an entire home.
SoberAuth helps your team recognize concerns sooner and respond with care. For the person returning, the people around them, and the shared space they all call home.
The people matter most. The routine shouldn't get in the way.
Running a behavioral health organization means balancing support, structure, and accountability every day. SoberAuth helps make routine expectations more consistent and important moments easier to see, so your team can spend more of its attention where people need it most.
The everyday rhythm
- Breath testing
- Door access
- Activity history
- Automatic relocking
When it matters
Something needs attention
Your team knows
SoberAuth helps keep everyday expectations consistent while making important moments easier to see.
For Staff
Meaningful context and timely notifications when someone may need attention or support.
For Program Leaders
Configurable policies and visibility across facilities without relying on scattered logs or verbal updates.
How It Works
A simple, consistent process. Built around your expectations.
SoberAuth brings facility settings, resident access, guided verification, and staff response into one connected experience. Your organization defines how each facility should operate, residents know what to expect, and staff receive context when it matters.
1Prepare your program
2Guide each entry
3Respond with context
Prepare the program
Start with expectations everyone can understand.
Each facility can reflect the way your organization already operates. SoberAuth applies those choices consistently while keeping the experience clear for the people who use it.
01
Configure each facility
Choose when testing is required, the BAC access limit, what happens after a failed test, relock timing, emergency access, and staff escalation preferences.
02
Welcome residents and staff
A secure access key connects each person to the right organization, facility, and role so they see the experience intended for them.
At the door
Make each step easy to follow.
Residents are shown what to do next without needing to understand the technology behind the experience. The facility's settings determine the path while the app provides clear guidance through the moment.
03
Choose the appropriate door
The resident opens SoberAuth, sees the doors available at their facility, and selects the one they are trying to access.
04
Complete verification when required
When the facility requires a test, the app guides camera readiness, Bluetooth and location checks, alcohol breath tester connection, the breath sample, and the result.
05
Continue based on your program's expectations
When requirements are met, SoberAuth can unlock the selected compatible door and schedule it to relock after the configured delay.
After the moment
Keep the record quiet until someone needs it.
Routine activity becomes part of a clear history without demanding constant attention. SoberAuth helps the right staff understand what happened and decide what comes next.
06
Maintain a meaningful activity history
Tests, access decisions, supported device events, and related verification context are organized for authorized staff to review.
07
Bring staff in when attention is needed
Important events can notify designated staff, request acknowledgment, and move through the organization's escalation order when a response has not yet been recorded.
For Your Program
Your expectations. Your facilities. One consistent way to carry them out.
No two behavioral health organizations operate exactly alike. SoberAuth gives your team control over the decisions that belong to your organization while helping those expectations remain clear and consistent from one entry to the next.
Your organization decides
Accountability on Your Terms
- When verification is required
- The BAC access limit
- What happens after a failed result
- Relock timing and emergency access
- Who responds when attention is needed
SoberAuth helps carry it out
A consistent experience around those choices
- Guide residents through each required step
- Coordinate supported alcohol breath testers and smart locks
- Apply the selected facility settings
- Maintain a meaningful activity history
- Notify and escalate to the appropriate staff
Facility level flexibility
Consistency across your organization. Flexibility where it matters.
Administrators maintain visibility across the organization, while each facility can have the settings, staff, devices, and response preferences that fit its environment.
Your Organization
Shared oversight and visibility
Facility A
Its own people, devices, access settings, and response preferences.
Facility B
A different operating approach within the same organization.
Our Story
Built from inside the work.
SoberAuth grew from firsthand experience operating a recovery residence, alongside years spent building software.
The idea did not begin with technology. It began with the quiet responsibility that comes with running a home. You are not always there, you cannot see every moment, and something important can change quickly. Residents deserve clear and consistent expectations, while the people responsible for the home need to know when their attention truly matters.
Those experiences shaped a simple belief: technology should make the routine easier without removing humanity from the response.
SoberAuth was created to help teams recognize important moments sooner, respond with care, and spend less energy worrying about what they might be missing.
Built with an understanding of both the software and the weight of the work.
Frequently Asked Questions
Clear answers before you get started.
From daily use to supported hardware, here is what programs most often want to understand about bringing SoberAuth into their environment.
01
What does SoberAuth do at the door?
SoberAuth turns entry into a clear, configurable checkpoint. A resident selects an available door, completes an alcohol breath test when the facility requires one, and continues based on that facility's settings. The result, access decision, and relevant context become part of an activity history, while staff are brought in when attention is needed.
02
Does every resident have to test on every entry?
No. Each facility can require testing on every entry, never require it, or use a 25%, 50%, or 75% probability for each resident access request. Administrators and authorized staff can also unlock a supported door directly when appropriate.
03
What happens when the facility internet or power goes out?
Each facility can configure an Emergency Offline Access PIN that SoberAuth provisions to its available supported locks. When the hub is unavailable, the offline access workflow can present that PIN so entry does not depend on a live unlock command. Because the PIN is stored locally on the battery powered lock, its keypad can continue operating during a facility internet or power interruption as long as the lock itself has power.
04
What happens when a breath test does not meet the facility limit?
The facility decides. SoberAuth can allow access and record the event, or deny access and begin the staff alert process. When alerts are enabled, the appropriate staff receive the context, can acknowledge the event, and can be escalated through the facility's configured order when no response is recorded.
05
Does SoberAuth continuously track or identify residents?
No. SoberAuth does not perform facial recognition or create biometric face templates, and it does not continuously track a resident's location. When a breath test is required, the workflow captures a short accountability video and a one time location reading to provide authorized staff with context for that specific test.
06
Can one organization manage multiple facilities?
Yes. Administrators can maintain visibility across the organization while each facility has its own residents, staff, supported devices, testing requirements, BAC access limit, emergency access PIN, relock timing, and response preferences.
07
Is SoberAuth only for sober living or recovery residences?
No. SoberAuth grew from firsthand experience operating a recovery residence, but it is designed as a configurable accountability and access platform for behavioral health organizations with facilities that share similar needs.
Current Compatibility
Built around devices you can plan for.
SoberAuth currently integrates with the BACtrack Mobile alcohol breath tester and supported Z-Wave smart locks through the SoberAuth Hub. Compatibility varies by device model, so we'll confirm your hardware before getting started.
Alcohol testing
BACtrack Mobile
BACtrack Mobile gives SoberAuth a compact, rechargeable alcohol breath tester with a direct Bluetooth connection to iPhone and Android. Its professional grade Xtend electrochemical fuel cell sensor is designed for the accuracy, sensitivity, and consistency that matter when a result helps guide access.
BACtrack rates the Mobile at ±0.005 at 0.050% BAC, with an approximately 10 second warmup and five second breath sample.
Door access
Supported Z-Wave Smart Locks
Z-Wave is designed for secure, low power connected devices, making it a natural fit for battery powered smart locks. Supported locks communicate through the SoberAuth Hub instead of relying on another power hungry Wi-Fi connection.
Its mesh network, range characteristics, and reduced Wi-Fi congestion help support reliable access while preserving lock battery life.
Already have hardware? We'll confirm whether it is supported. If a replacement is needed, we will help you start with a known combination instead of relying on fragile workarounds.
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