We design, install and commission residential systems on open standards — local-first by default, no monthly fees, and yours to own when we leave.
My doorbell sends footage to a server I don't control.
Every device wants a subscription.
When the internet goes down, nothing works.
These aren't edge cases. They're the default — the result of fifteen years of devices that quietly migrated their value off your network and onto someone else's balance sheet. Our job is to put it back.
Your system runs on hardware in your home. Lights, locks, cameras and alarms keep working when the internet goes down — because they were never depending on it.
Camera footage stays on a network drive in your closet. Voice stays on-prem. We disclose every cloud touchpoint we cannot avoid — and we explain why before it goes in.
You pay us once to install it correctly. After that, the system is yours. If we go out of business tomorrow, your home keeps working — no kill switch, no expiry.
We work in standards, not ecosystems. Zigbee, Matter, Thread, Home Assistant, HomeKit — open protocols you can audit, replace, and outlive.
Anything that requires an account to function in your living room is a subscription pretending to be a product. We won't sell it to you, and we won't install it.
If we go out of business tomorrow, your home keeps working.
Lighting, locks, climate, and a private network — the minimum spine a smart home should have. Built so you can extend it later without rewiring it.
Tier details →Foundation plus on-site security, POE cameras with local recording, alarm integration, and scene control across the whole property.
Tier details →Multi-building or new-construction projects. Pre-wire, low-voltage, redundant power, network segmentation, multi-zone audio and a documented system you can pass on with the house.
Tier details →Security upgrade. Replaced four cloud doorbells/cameras and a Ring alarm with on-prem POE + Frigate.
New-construction, pre-wired during framing. Full as-built handover. Lutron, Philips Hue, PoE cameras with Frigate monitoring alerts, smart garage door opener, full house automations, and custom dashboards.
Lutron Caséta retrofit, no drywall scars. Owner now operates and extends the system unaided.
We're operating with an alarm contractor license currently pending in the State of Florida, and we carry $2M general liability with a cyber rider. Certificates and license status are available on request before any contract is signed.
The system is portable. We can decommission and reinstall at the new property, or hand you a complete documentation binder so the next owner can take over. Either way, nothing is dealer-locked.
Home Assistant is the brain; HomeKit is one front-end among several. If Apple changes course, you swap the front-end. Your devices, your automations, your data — all stay. That's the point of building on open standards.
Those platforms are dealer-locked: only an authorized installer can touch them, and parts are proprietary. We use open standards, so any competent integrator — or a confident owner — can maintain or extend the system. You own it; we don't hold the keys.
We do site visits within roughly 60 miles of our home base. Beyond that, we still take new-construction projects where we can spec during design phase and visit at framing, rough-in, and commissioning.
The decisions — “motion at 2am, turn on the porch light” — happen on a small server in your home, not a data center. Internet is used for remote access and updates, not for the system to function. When your fiber goes down, your lights, locks and cameras keep working.
Yes. Remote access is set up at install — typically through a private encrypted tunnel (Tailscale or WireGuard) or via Apple's Home app over iCloud relay. The difference is that the connection is point-to-point between your phone and your home, not routed through a vendor's database.
If your internet is down, the app simply can't reach the house — but the house itself keeps running.
Over five to ten years, almost always. A typical cloud-camera household quietly pays $30–$80/month across video plans, alarm monitoring, smart-lock fees and “premium” automations. That's $1,800–$9,600 a decade, with nothing owned at the end.
Our installs cost more upfront and effectively zero to run. Monitoring, when you want it, is a la carte through partners like AlarmRelay — no long-term contract.
If you already use them and you're happy, we can integrate — they sit on top as a voice front-end while the brain stays local. We're upfront that anything you say to those devices does leave the house.
If you'd rather keep voice on-prem, we install a local option (Home Assistant Voice, or a self-hosted LLM) that stays inside your network. No transcripts, no training data, no account required.
No. Day-to-day, you use the same things you'd use with any system: a wall keypad, the Apple Home app, voice, your phone. Nothing in the house requires a terminal.
The difference is that if you ever want to look under the hood — add a sensor, change an automation, hand the system to a different installer — you can. We document everything in plain language at handover, and most clients never need to.
How to choose smart home and security systems you'll actually own — without subscriptions, cloud lock-in, or vendor surprises. Vendor-neutral on purpose, including about us.
Tell us a little about your property. We'll come back with a short note: whether the project is a good match, a rough range, and what we'd want to see on a first site visit.
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