Smart Home & Home Assistant

What smart home really is.

A switch with a display is not a smart home. Real building intelligence means: the room reacts – to time, presence, weather. And to you.

Where “smart” often fails

A switch with a display

A touchscreen that merely replaces light switches automates nothing. It just moves the button – from the wall onto the glass.

Isolated solutions

Ten apps for ten devices that don’t talk to each other. Every island stays on its own – and dumb.

Forced cloud

If the manufacturer’s server is offline, your lights won’t turn on. Intelligence belongs in the building, not in a data centre.

What it takes instead

Automation

Scenes and logic: light follows the time of day, shading follows the sun, heating follows presence – without anyone pressing a button.

Open standards

KNX, MQTT, Zigbee, Matter: systems that work across manufacturers – today and in ten years.

Local intelligence

The logic runs inside the building. Fast, private and independent of the internet and manufacturer clouds.

This is what automation feels like.

Pick a scene – the room reacts.

Morning

07:10 22.0 °C

Scene: Morning

Lighting

Climate

Shading

Security

Behind it: the logic

Sensors report, the logic decides, the room acts – no app-juggling required.

Home Assistant on TUGECH panels

Home Assistant is the world’s largest open smart home platform: local, vendor-neutral, with thousands of integrations – from KNX and Zigbee to Matter.

TUGECH panels are the ideal control centre for it: PoE-powered, flush-mounted, built for continuous operation. Your dashboard runs in kiosk mode directly on the panel.

And KNX?

KNX remains the backbone of professional building automation. TUGECH panels visualise KNX systems – and platforms like Home Assistant connect KNX with the rest of the smart home world.

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Demo: tap the cards – this is how the panel feels.

In development

TUGECH OS: Home Assistant pre-installed

We are working on panels with Home Assistant pre-installed: connect, switch on, get started – power and network over a single PoE cable. Availability will be announced.

Stay informed

Home Assistant is an open-source project by the Open Home Foundation. TUGECH is an independent manufacturer and is not affiliated with the Open Home Foundation.

Your project. Your automation.

From a single panel to a complete smart home system – we advise you vendor-neutrally and project-specifically.

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