The building looks after itself — even when you are two hundred kilometres away
Smart homes usually break not because of the devices but because of how many there are: every vendor wants its own app, its own account and its own cloud, and eventually nobody knows what runs where. We put watering, heating, sensors, sockets and lighting on one network and into one view. Plants get water when the soil is dry, a room gets heated when it is actually used, and a leak raises an alert while it is still a question of a towel rather than a renovation.
What a building handles by itself once the devices talk to each other
Watering driven by the soil, not the calendar
A moisture sensor in the bed or the pot says when water is genuinely needed, and the forecast says when to skip it because rain is coming this evening. Water goes to the right place in the right amount without anyone being reminded or a neighbour being asked for a favour — and without replacing the same plants twice a year.
Heating and climate, room by room
Each room gets its own sensor and its own schedule: the bedroom cool at night, the living room warm in the evening, an unused room at minimum. Before a guest arrives the temperature rises by itself, and after they leave it drops back. That is where most of the saving comes from — the money goes on heating empty rooms, not on a couple of degrees here and there.
Sensors that talk to each other
Motion, door, window, temperature, humidity, air quality and power draw all land in the same system, so you can build rules rather than just charts. A window opens and the radiator shuts off; someone is home and the lights follow them; nobody has been in for three days and the building drops into saving mode on its own.
Leaks, smoke and an unlocked door — the alert comes first
A water sensor under the washing machine, at the pipework and beside the boiler raises the alarm within minutes and can shut the main valve by itself. Smoke, carbon monoxide, a sudden temperature drop or a door that was never locked reach your phone while the problem still costs euros rather than a month of repairs.
Sockets, lights and appliances behind one scenario
Sauna warm before arrival, boiler running on the cheap hour, lights and the iron off when the last person leaves. One button or one event fires a whole scenario, so you are not flipping ten things in sequence and not trying to remember afterwards whether everything actually went off.
Two days before Christmas, the sensor under the washing machine spoke up
The house was empty, the owners were away, and a hose behind the washing machine started to drip. In the old world this story ends the way these stories usually end: somebody finds the water a week later, the floor is gone, the floor below it too, and the insurance conversation turns into an argument about how many days it ran. In this house there was a twenty-euro sensor under the machine. The alert reached a phone in seven minutes, the system closed the floor’s main valve itself, and a message also went to a neighbour who had a key. The damage came to one towel. That same week the same system had held the empty house at eight degrees, brought it back up the day before the owners returned, and watered the greenhouse tomatoes three times because the soil was dry and no rain came. None of that is an impressive feature on its own. Together they are the difference between a building that needs constant watching and one that does not.
Related solutions
Automated guest messaging
A sensor event can trigger a message to the guest, the cleaner or you.
One app for everything
Devices, bookings and lock logs in one view instead of five separate accounts.
Rent anything, self-service
The same sensors and locks keep a garage, a sauna or a storage bay in order.
Smart devices — answers
Do I have to replace all the equipment I already have?
Usually not. We start from what is already there: many heating units, boilers, ventilation systems and sockets can join the system as they are, either directly or through an adapter module, and only genuinely old or closed equipment is worth replacing. Common standards and vendors are supported, so you are not locking yourself to a single manufacturer. The practical advice is to start small: a couple of sensors where damage would be most expensive — water, smoke, heating — and one or two scenarios that save the most time. If that works, adding devices later is easy, because the network and the app already exist and do not need setting up again.
What happens if the internet goes down?
Local rules keep running. Watering, heating, lighting scenarios and sensor-driven automations run through the local hub rather than the cloud, so losing the connection does not make the building stupid. What you lose temporarily is remote control and notifications, and events sync once the link is back. Critical items — a leak shut-off valve, alarms — can have backup power so they work through an outage as well. This is one reason we do not build purely on the cloud: a building that needs the internet to function will let you down on exactly the evening the internet is not there.
How much does smart heating actually save?
The largest part of the saving comes not from a couple of degrees but from no longer heating empty rooms at full power. If a house or flat stands empty part of the week — a short-term rental, a summer house, an office nobody uses on Fridays — a room-level schedule combined with occupancy sensing is usually what shows up most clearly on the bill. On top of that come two smaller wins: appliances run more of the time on cheaper hours, and an open window no longer lets a radiator heat the street. We do not promise an exact percentage upfront, because that depends on the building, the heating system and the usage pattern far more than on software — but consumption is visible in the system before and after, so the difference is measured rather than claimed.
Does this suit a rental where guests keep changing?
That is where the benefit is most direct. The guest sets nothing up: the temperature is right on arrival, the lights and the sauna work without instructions, and after checkout the place drops into saving mode by itself. Meanwhile you see things you otherwise would not — whether a window was left open, whether there are unusually many people in the room, whether someone smoked, whether air quality dropped or the temperature fell unexpectedly. All of these are anonymous measurements, not surveillance: the point is to identify a problem, not a person. In practice it means less damage, less explaining, and a cleaner who knows before arriving whether anything unusual is waiting.
Tell us what demands the most attention in your building right now
Heating, watering, leaks, or simply the fact that somebody always has to be there — describe your situation and we will put the devices, the installation and the scenarios into one quote that solves the most expensive problem first.