Most smart home problems are network problems.
When a smart home is unreliable, the automation is rarely at fault. It is the network underneath it: one router covering a house it was never going to cover, every device on the same flat network, and cameras streaming through a link that cannot carry them.
We design residential networks the way a small business network gets designed — coverage planned against the floorplan, wired backhaul wherever it can be run, and devices separated so that a cheap camera cannot become a route to the laptop you do your banking on.
What the work covers
- Coverage designed, not guessed
- Access points placed against the floorplan and construction, with wired backhaul where it can be run.
- Segmented networks
- Cameras, IoT devices, guests and the family network kept separate, so one weak device is not a way in.
- Cameras that are actually useful
- Sited for identification rather than decoration, recorded locally, and reviewable without a subscription.
- Access control
- Door entry, gates and codes managed centrally, issued for a window of time, and logged.
- Outbuildings and long runs
- Garages, barns and gates given hardened links instead of an optimistic reach from the house.
- Remote access done safely
- Reaching your house from outside it without exposing it to everyone else.
Denver and the Front Range.
We work across the Front Range and into the mountains — from city homes in Denver to second homes in the Vail Valley and Steamboat. Each of those is a different problem, so each has its own page.
- DenverCherry Creek · Wash Park · Congress Park · Berkeley
- Douglas CountyCastle Rock · Parker · Highlands Ranch · Castle Pines
- Fort Collins & Northern ColoradoLoveland · Windsor · Timnath · Berthoud
- BoulderLouisville · Lafayette · Superior · Niwot
- Evergreen & the FoothillsConifer · Morrison · Idaho Springs · Genesee
- Colorado SpringsMonument · Black Forest · Briargate · Broadmoor
- Summit CountyBreckenridge · Frisco · Dillon · Silverthorne
- Winter Park & the Fraser ValleyFraser · Tabernash · Granby · Grand Lake
- Vail ValleyBeaver Creek · Avon · Edwards · Eagle
- Aspen & the Roaring Fork ValleySnowmass Village · Basalt · Carbondale · Old Snowmass
- Steamboat SpringsStagecoach · Oak Creek · Hayden · Clark
Questions people ask
Why does my smart home keep dropping off the network?
Usually coverage or contention rather than the devices themselves. One router rarely covers a whole house, and once dozens of low-power devices share the same congested band, things start timing out. The fix is a designed network: several access points, wired backhaul where possible, and traffic separated so cameras are not competing with everything else.
Do camera recordings go to the cloud?
They do not have to, and we default to keeping them local. Footage recorded on equipment in your house means no monthly fee per camera and no copy of your property sitting on someone else's servers. Remote viewing still works — it just reaches into your system rather than a third party's.
Why separate cameras and smart devices from the main network?
Because inexpensive connected devices are the least well-maintained things in a house, and a flat network means anything that reaches one of them can reach everything else. Segmenting them keeps a compromised camera or plug away from the computers and phones that matter.
Tell us what is already in your house.
Bring us the apps that will not talk to each other, the cameras you do not trust, and the routines that almost work. We will design the rest around how you actually live.