A family had a driveway gate with two daily annoyances: from inside the house, you couldn’t tell if it was open or closed, and you couldn’t open it without hunting down the handheld remote. They already had a camera pointed at the gate.
Instead of drilling sensors into a moving steel structure outdoors, or splicing into the gate’s controller board, we used what was already there. The existing camera became the eyes (a small image-recognition service tells the home whether the gate is open or closed, in any lighting). A small radio-learning device inside the house became the hand (it learned the original remote’s signal, so the home can press that button on demand from anywhere). The gate itself was never touched.
That’s the kind of work we do. Not demos. Not app showcases. Real infrastructure that uses what’s already there, fails gracefully when it has to, and gets out of the way once it’s working. Lights, climate, gates, blinds, sensors, presence, all built around how the home actually runs, not how it looks in a showroom.
Real example
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