We believe in the promise of a smarter home, but wanted to move beyond automation and opaque devices with blinking lights.

We believe in the promise of a smarter home, but wanted to move beyond automation and opaque devices with blinking lights. They didn’t fit into the way people felt about their homes, usually places of comfort and warmth. Your home is your private space and we want to make sure that your privacy is taken seriously. We designed Essential Home to directly talk to your devices over your in-home network as much as possible in order to limit sending data to the cloud. Essential Home’s proactive assistant also runs its AI engine locally on the device. We will continue to work on innovative ways to make the device smarter without compromising privacy.

We believe in the promise of a smarter home, but wanted to move beyond automation and opaque devices with blinking lights. They didn’t fit into the way people felt about their homes, usually places of comfort and warmth.