European home automation platforms

A home automation platform ties your lights, heating, sensors, locks and sockets together and lets you control them from one app or by voice. Rules and scenes handle the routine: heating down when nobody is home, lights on at dusk, an alert when a window opens. The platform is the hub that makes devices from different brands work as one system.

Smart home data describes when you get up, when the house is empty and who comes and goes, which is why local control matters as much as jurisdiction. Homey, Shelly, Homematic IP and tado° come from European companies, and local control without a cloud account is worth checking for on each. Choosing a European home automation platform also reduces the risk of a device losing features when a distant cloud is switched off.