Open-source system

Home Assistant for smart buildings

Alternative to proprietary building systems

Monitor sensors and building devices across your office on a unified dashboard, for monitoring, not critical control.

Available on request: We set it up for you when you ask for it.

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System facts

Alternative to
Proprietary building-management systems
Built on
Home Assistant (Apache-2.0 license)
Hosting
We host it for you in Egypt: Link Datacenter in Egypt or Huawei Cloud, Cairo region
Language
Interface partly in Arabic
Sign-in
With its own account
Ordering
On its own or in a bundle
Status
Available on request
Price
We send it to you after a short call

What it does for you

A centralized dashboard for all physical sensors and equipment in your facility: temperature, humidity, door access sensors, water leaks, electricity consumption, HVAC cooling, and lighting. Monitor conditions from computers or mobile phones, receiving immediate alerts if a door opens after hours, water leaks are detected, or energy spikes occur. The system runs locally on a controller in your building without routing private facility data through foreign cloud providers.

Alternative to

If you are looking for an alternative to SmartThings or Google Home for commercial buildings, this replaces:

  • Samsung SmartThings.
  • Google Home.
  • Managing multiple isolated vendor-specific smartphone apps.

What you get

  • Unified multi-vendor integration connecting hardware across hundreds of brands into one interface.
  • Industry protocols: Zigbee, Z-Wave, Matter, and Wi-Fi via dedicated hardware gateways.
  • Custom dashboards tailored for specific building floors, equipment rooms, or facilities managers.
  • Automation engine: Trigger, condition, and action rules, such as shutting off lighting when offices are empty.
  • Facility scenes: One-tap preset configurations, such as an "End of Working Hours" scene.
  • Energy dashboard: Tracking electricity usage, solar generation, water flow, and gas consumption.
  • Historical sensor telemetry with visual trend graphs.
  • Mobile alerts sent directly to the Home Assistant companion apps for Android and iOS.
  • Live camera video streams embedded in monitoring views.
  • Local voice assistant for basic offline spoken commands.
  • Multi-user access with custom role permissions.
  • Automated configuration backups.
  • Local-first execution: Fully operational during internet outages for on-premise hardware.

Built on Home Assistant, an open-source home and facility automation platform.

Arabic and hosting in Egypt

  • Arabic: Large portions of the interface are localized in Arabic with remaining elements in English; room names, device labels, and automation rules in Arabic work natively.
  • Hosting: It runs on a physical appliance or local server inside your facility, with secure remote access and cloud backups hosted privately in Egypt (infrastructure design).

From ready-made to built for you

  1. 01 As-is The core system integrated with your currently supported local sensors and an initial dashboard.
  2. 02 Configured for your workflow Facility floors, equipment rooms, role-specific monitoring screens, and alert notification routing.
  3. 03 Customized Energy-saving automations, energy dashboards configured with local utility tariff rates, and monthly executive reports.
  4. 04 Built for you Streaming telemetry into maintenance CMMS software or aggregating multiple regional branches into a single management pane.

Customization and building from scratch are part of our software and application development service.

Works with

Part of: Factory pack

  • Manufacturing

    ERPNext Manufacturing

    Asas module

    Bills of materials, work orders, and production costing, integrated with inventory and accounting.

    Alternative to: Odoo Manufacturing, SAP Business One

    • On request
    • Full Arabic
    • In Egypt
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  • Maintenance management (CMMS)

    Atlas CMMS

    Open-source system

    Maintenance requests, preventive maintenance schedules, and spare parts for every machine or asset.

    Alternative to: Proprietary maintenance systems

    • On request
    • English
    • In Egypt
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  • IoT integration

    Node-RED

    Open-source system

    Connect sensors, production counters, and IoT devices to your system, displaying readings and alerts.

    Alternative to: Proprietary IoT gateways

    • On request
    • English
    • In Egypt
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Who it is for

  • Professional offices wanting centralized office environmental monitoring and electricity cost reduction.
  • Factories monitoring sensitive storage warehouses, manufacturing plants, and server server rooms.

Frequently asked questions

Is it an alternative to SmartThings or Google Home?

Yes, uniting sensors and equipment across dozens of manufacturers into a single automation and monitoring dashboard. The difference is running locally within your facility without routing telemetry through foreign cloud servers.

Does it replace a specialized industrial Building Management System (BMS)?

No. It handles environmental monitoring, visual dashboards, and non-critical automations. Mission-critical industrial plant controls—such as fire suppression, elevators, and primary central chillers—remain on their certified engineering controllers.

Does it integrate with our existing IoT hardware?

It supports a vast catalog of commercial and smart hardware. We audit your existing hardware inventory prior to rollout.

Can we monitor facilities remotely from outside the office?

Yes, via secure remote access configured on your mobile phone or web browser.

Our limits

  • For monitoring and non-critical automation: Fire suppression, physical life safety, elevators, and heavy industrial chillers remain on certified proprietary systems; we do not connect overrides without your chief engineer.
  • Physical sensor hardware and on-site electrical installation are provided by specialized hardware vendors or your facilities maintenance team.
  • The software is from its developer (Home Assistant); our role is hosting, configuration, operation, and support.

Smart buildings: Request it

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