A smart home that answers to you, not the cloud.
IONA designs and installs private, local-first home automation — lighting, climate, security, leak protection and the network beneath it all — engineered with the discipline of a studio data center.
Built to keep working.
Even when the internet doesn't.
Most smart homes are a collection of apps that depend on someone else's servers. Ours run inside your walls, on hardware you own.
Local by design
Control runs on a dedicated system in your home. Instant response, no subscriptions, and your data stays put.
Infrastructure-grade
Proper racks, power protection, monitoring and documentation — the same standards used where downtime isn't an option.
One calm interface
A single, beautifully designed control surface for the whole home — on wall panels, phones and voice.
Supported for the long run
Systems are maintained, updated and backed up by the person who built them. You always know who to call.
One calm screen for the whole household.
Every IONA home gets a custom control surface for wall panels, phones and tablets. It handles the house, and the family schedule that runs it.
Family calendar
Everyone's week in one view, color-coded by person and synced with the calendars you already use.
Chores & routines
Morning-to-bedtime routines, streaks and allowance tracking that kids actually want to check off.
HydraLock water protection
Live valve status, leak sensors and flow monitoring, with one-touch shutoff from anywhere in the house.
Everything in the home, working as one.
Lighting
Lights that know who is in the room, not just that something moved. They follow you through the house, stay on while you sit still and read, and adjust their scenes to the time of day and the season.
Climate
Room-by-room comfort that reacts to occupancy, weather and schedule.
Security, access & intercom
Locks, cameras, garage and doorbell intercom — recorded locally, never sold.
Water leak protection
Sensors throughout the home with automatic shutoff before a drip becomes a claim.
Private voice control
Voice commands processed in the home, without a big-tech assistant listening in.
Whole-home network
Enterprise-grade Wi-Fi and segmented networking that keeps devices fast and isolated.
A calendar that runs the house
The family calendar doesn't just remind you. It drives the home. Events on the schedule set the house up ahead of time, so nobody has to remember to.
- Family trip on the calendarAway mode, alarm armed, heat set back
- Guests arriving FridayGuest suite warmed, porch lights on at dusk
- 6 AM flightGentle wake-up lights and coffee at 4:30
- No school todayWeekday morning routine skipped
A garage that knows which car is home
The house recognizes each car as it comes up the driveway and opens that car's garage door. No remote, no app, no reaching for your phone.
- Your car pulls into the drivewayYour bay opens, not the one next to it
- Heading out for the dayThe door opens as you walk to the car
- Door opened but no car came inCloses itself after a few minutes
- Any open or closeA quiet alert on your phone
Built by a post-production chief engineer.
For 30 years I designed and built mission-critical infrastructure for post-production studios: the data centers, render farms and production systems behind commercials for brands like Verizon, Nike, Coca-Cola, Ford, American Express and ADT. That infrastructure supported 3D, 2D and Flame artists across multiple floors.
In that world, when the infrastructure fails, everything stops. My job was making sure it didn't. IONA brings that same standard of reliability into your home, designed and installed by a Princeton engineer who stands behind every system.
Let's talk about your home.
Building, renovating, or replacing a system that never quite worked? Tell us a little about the project and we'll set up a walkthrough.