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Case study · Home control

A home that just works.

Lights that know you have walked in. Air that is cool before you get home. Curtains that follow the sun. All of it decided in the house, by the house, not by a company’s servers. In this case study the home runs itself, and keeps running when the internet doesn’t.

An evening at home. Point at a room, or tap it, to switch it on yourself.A rendering of the concept.

A home that just works

You shouldn’t have to think about it.

The best home automation is the kind nobody notices. Rooms respond to the people in them and to the hour of the day. Every decision is made on a hub inside the house, in milliseconds.

01

Nothing to reach for

Walk in and the light is on. Sit down and the fan starts. Leave, and it all turns off behind you.

02

It knows the hour

Curtains open with the sun and close at dusk. Lights warm as evening comes. The bedroom is cool before bedtime, not after.

03

Every brand, one home

Switches, bulbs, sensors and appliances from different makers behave as one system on the home network, without a dozen apps and accounts.

04

Internet down, home up

Routines run on the hub in the house. A cut cable or a closed service changes nothing inside.

The problem

Smart, until the cloud blinks

Most smart homes are a dozen apps from a dozen brands, each turning on a light by sending the request to a server abroad and back. When the internet drops, the bulb forgets you. When a company closes its service, the switch becomes an ornament. And every tap tells someone when your family is home.

How it works

Every device, one hub, inside the house.

Sensors and switches report to a hub in the house. It decides, and the lights, climate, curtains, lock and gate respond, with no round trip to anyone’s server.

MotionDoors & windowsTemperatureDaylightWho’s homeWall switchVoiceCameraSmokeWater leakDoorbellAir qualityLightsAir-conCurtainsSmart lockGarage gateTVFanSpeakerSmart plugRobot vacuumGarden sprinklerBlindsHome server: decides inside the houseMotionDoors & windowsTemperatureDaylightWho’s homeWall switchVoiceCameraSmokeWater leakDoorbellAir qualityLightsAir-conCurtainsSmart lockGarage gateTVFanSpeakerSmart plugRobot vacuumGarden sprinklerBlindsHome server: decides inside the house

Leaves the house: nothing. Devices talk to the hub on the home network. Control from outside goes through the family’s private tunnel.

Living with it

Moments it makes possible.

Coming home

The gate opens, the porch and hall light up, and the living room is already cool, because the air-con started when the car left the office.

Good night

One phrase. The TV goes off, the curtains close, the hall dims to a night light and the bedroom air-con settles to its sleeping temperature.

A blackout outside

The street loses its internet. Inside, nothing changes: every routine runs on the hub in the cupboard.

Principles at work

Why it’s built this way.

  • Independent: routines run locally on open standards such as Zigbee and Matter; no cloud, no lock-in.
  • Private by design: when the family comes and goes is recorded at home and nowhere else.
  • Agentic-ready: an assistant can ask the house what happened and adjust a routine, within the permissions it is given.
  • Built to evolve: new devices join the same hub; nothing is thrown away.
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