Home Automation
Home Automation Consultancy Services for any project size.
The Home Automation industry can be very confusing, with competing companies, brands, products and many standards. Sometimes we need help with deciding how to approach a project that at first glance can seem daunting and confusing. We take a “task-based” approach to Home Automation design, to ensure that the project goals are clear, and that you can have the automated home that you desire.
When thinking about Home Automation, try to consider ideas such as:
“I want lights in my room/house to turn on when I walk in, and off when I am not in the room.”
“The livingroom lights should automatically dim when I play a movie.”
“I want the heating to activate when I am home and switch off when I’m not.”
“The bathroom extractor should turn on when the humidity is high, instead of when the light is on.”
“I want to be verbally welcomed by my Google Home/Amazon Alexa when I arrive home.”
“I want to be notified if there is movement at home when I am away.”
“I want to be notified when the dishwasher or washing machine is done.”
“I want to answer my doorbell from my smartphone, when I’m not home.”
From these kinds of ideas, we can design solutions with/for you that provide real value.
How We Can Help You?
We help our customers plan and implement Home Automation solutions that work for them in their real lives.
We provide Consultancy Services for Home Automation projects and installations, whether you are looking to setup a room, house or campus. We provide scalable solutions using consumer-available modern hardware and open-source software.
Design
We are available to design with/for you a Home Automation solution that is affordable, scalable and manageable. Our intent is mainly to have automation that works, without much or any required interaction, the way that we imagine automation to work.
We imagine that properly-designed automation should work for us, without too much input.
Compatibility
We want to grow with you, and your Home Automation project. As you discover more things that you would like done, we want to enable you to do so. Compatibility is important, so if you already have (for example) an IKEA TRADFRI set, Philips Hue, Zigbee, Z-Wave, something else (Or all of them!), we can integrate it all into a single coherent system. No more separate apps and interfaces. Control your home using a single customisable interface.
Hardware
Where possible, we try to use readily-available hardware, but often you need something special. We custom design hardware solutions using reliable modern hardware like Raspberry Pi, ESP8266, and Arduino controllers, so you can be assured that your solution is maintainable, updatable and stays current.
Providing safe, manageable and scalable solutions is our business.
Data Security
Your data, always.
Security is our chief concern, and all solutions are designed for you to have exclusive and private access to your Home Automation Data, locally in your home. No corporations collecting your data, tracking your location or spying on you. Not us either.
You get to choose who has access, and what to do with it.
Open-Source
We believe in using first-class modern Open-Source software such as Home Assistant, Tasmota and MQTT to manage your hardware. Our engineers are active contributors to these projects. This prevents "vendor-lockin" and allows your solution will grow with you.
We are actively involved in the software development community around Home Automation, and want you to benefit from this.
Help & Support
We are committed to supporting your project and Home Automation solution. We encourage starting small, and scaling depending on what you want to achieve. The possibilities are almost endless.