Smart Home & Security

Cameras, smart locks, sensors, thermal imaging, and home automation. Local storage, no subscriptions, no corporate surveillance. Your home, your data, your rules.

What We Offer

Ring and Nest want $20–$30/month forever to show you your own cameras. We install systems where you own the hardware, the footage, and the intelligence — no subscription required, ever.

Smart Home Setup

Smart locks, sensors, thermostats, lighting. All running on Home Assistant. From $499.

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Security Cameras

UniFi Protect & Frigate NVR. AI detection, local storage, zero cloud fees. From $399.

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Thermal Imaging

Find air leaks, missing insulation, moisture problems. Then fix them. Same visit. From $149.

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Home Automation

Home Assistant custom dashboards, voice control, automated routines. Your home learns your schedule.

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No Subscriptions. Not Now. Not Ever.

We know how this usually goes.

Every system we install runs locally. No monthly fees. No cloud storage charges. No corporate servers watching your cameras. You own your data, your footage, and your smart home — forever.

$0/month
UniFi Protect
What we install
$20/month
Ring Protect
$240/year, forever
$29/month
ADT
$348/year + contracts

Do the math. A UniFi system pays for itself. Then it keeps paying.

Why Local Storage Wins

Cloud-connected cameras have a dirty secret: they're uploading your home to someone else's server.

✓ Footage Stays Home

Your cameras record to local storage — an NVR or NAS in your home. Nobody else can access it, subpoena it, or accidentally expose it in a data breach.

✓ AI That Actually Works

Frigate NVR runs object detection locally on your hardware. Person vs. car vs. animal — real-time on your server, not uploaded to a cloud for processing. Faster alerts, no upload delay.

✓ Works Without Internet

ISP goes down? Your cameras keep recording. Your smart locks keep working. Your automations keep running. Local systems don't hold your home hostage to an uptime SLA you never agreed to.

✓ No App Dependency

When Ring decides to sunset an API or Google kills Nest features (again), local systems don't care. Home Assistant and UniFi are open platforms that you control — not a product roadmap committee.

✓ Integrates Everything

Home Assistant talks to 3,000+ devices and services. Locks, lights, thermostats, cameras, sensors — all in one dashboard, all controlled by rules you write. Not rules Amazon wrote.

✓ We Fix It If It Breaks

We're local. Dane County. Not a 1-800 number in another time zone. If something's acting up, we come back. No support ticket queue, no chatbot, no "have you tried turning it off and on again" script.

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I was paying Ring $20 a month and the app was constantly asking me to upgrade. The UniFi setup is faster, clearer, and I haven't paid a dime since installation. Wish I'd done it years ago.

— Satisfied Customer, Madison

Frequently Asked Questions

Things people ask before they cancel their Ring subscription.

For you? No. That's why you're hiring us. We handle the install, configuration, and integration. You get a clean dashboard and a walkthrough so you know how to use everything. The complexity lives under the hood — not in your face.
We can assess what you have and help you decide whether to keep it, supplement it, or replace it. We don't push hardware replacements when existing gear is doing its job. That said, if your cameras require a subscription just to play back footage from an hour ago, we'll tell you plainly what a replacement would cost — and when the math flips in your favor.
Not at all. UniFi Protect and Home Assistant both support secure remote access — you can view your cameras and control your home from anywhere. The difference is that access routes through your own hardware, not through a company's servers. Your footage isn't sitting on Amazon's infrastructure. You're still connected; you're just in charge of the connection.
A typical 4–6 camera residential install runs 4–6 hours including NVR setup and configuration. Larger systems with more cable runs or attic/crawlspace work take longer. We'll give you a realistic time estimate during the consultation — not a "we'll be there between 8 and 5" window.
Fair question. Thermal imaging is a diagnostic service — we use a FLIR camera to find air leaks, missing insulation, moisture intrusion, and overheating electrical components. It lives in this category because we often combine it with a smart thermostat install or weatherization project. Find the problem and fix it in the same visit, rather than scheduling two separate contractors months apart.

While You're At It

Services our smart home clients often add on.

Networking & WiFi

Smart home devices are only as reliable as your network. We design and install UniFi WiFi 7 that keeps every sensor, camera, and automation running without dropouts.

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Computer & Tech

Running Home Assistant on a local server? Need a NAS for camera storage? We spec and build the right hardware so your smart home brain doesn't run on a shoestring.

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Secure & Automate Your Home

Local storage. No subscriptions. Professional installation. We'll assess your home and design a system that actually works — and stays working.

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