Smart homes in Aspen & the Roaring Fork Valley.
Aspen is where the argument for a private system stops being philosophical. These are households that do not want footage of their family sitting on a monitoring company's servers, or a record of who came and went held by anyone but them. A conventional smart home hands all of that to third parties by default.
So the design starts from discretion and works outward: the cameras record locally, the automation runs locally, the intelligence layer runs locally, and the people who need access get exactly the access they need for exactly as long as they need it — logged, and revocable.
What is different about Aspen & the Roaring Fork Valley
- Discretion as an architecture, not a setting
- Footage stays on equipment in the house. No third-party monitoring service holds video of your family, and no cloud account accumulates a record of when the house is occupied.
- Staffed households
- Housekeepers, caretakers, chefs and contractors each get their own credentials with their own windows and their own audit trail — not a shared code that has been in circulation for years.
- Victorian West End constraints
- Aspen’s historic homes come with tight limits on what may appear on an elevation, and often with plaster and no conduit inside. The system is designed to be nearly invisible on the outside and wireless-first within.
- Snowmelt, freeze protection and long absences
- Heated drives and walks monitored rather than assumed, temperature sensing everywhere that can freeze, automatic water shutoff, and a house that warms itself before you land.
Also serving nearby
- Snowmass Village
- Basalt
- Carbondale
- Old Snowmass
- Woody Creek
- Redstone
- Pitkin County
Aspen & the Roaring Fork Valley questions
Will anyone outside the household be able to see our cameras?
No, and that is the point of building it this way. Footage is recorded on equipment in your own home rather than streamed to a monitoring company, so no third party holds video of your family or a log of when the property is occupied. You can still view cameras remotely — that connection reaches into your system rather than into someone else’s.
We have staff and caretakers. How is access handled?
Individually. Each person gets their own credential valid for their own window, rather than a shared code that has quietly been in circulation for years. Every entry is logged, access can be revoked instantly, and you can see who came and when without reviewing footage.
Do you work down-valley as well as in Aspen?
Yes — Snowmass Village, Basalt, Carbondale, Old Snowmass and the rest of the Roaring Fork Valley. The brief changes as you go down-valley: more full-time residences and fewer long empty stretches, which shifts the emphasis from protection toward daily living.
Designing a smart home in Aspen & the Roaring Fork Valley?
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.