“When your home can unlock the door, disarm the alarm and light the hallway, ‘good enough’ security is never enough”
Most “smart-home” products on the market are either cloud-only gadgets that leave you hostage to a vendor’s server—or DIY hobby boards cobbled together with radio modules, watch-batteries and wishful thinking. SIMO.io was engineered for people who refuse to gamble with their family’s safety, comfort and data. Every PCB trace, kernel flag and UI pixel exists because it strengthens security, speed or resilience.
Below you’ll find the ten pillars that make SIMO.io the Security First platform—followed by a quick look at how typical alternatives fall short.
1. Wire-Only Backbone—Because Airwaves Aren’t Private
- Zero radios, zero eavesdropping. Devices use Gigabit PoE over twisted-pair; an attacker needs on-site access even to see your traffic.
- Always-on performance. Hard-wired links deliver sub-millisecond latency—no “wake-up” delays or lost packets.
- No batteries, no downtime. Forget annual alkaline swaps and endless “sensor offline” alerts—less hassle, less waste.
Bottom-line benefit: A SIMO-powered home feels instant and stays secure, even when Wi-Fi is jammed or the neighbor’s Zigbee hub goes haywire.
2. Built-In Power Resilience
The hub and broadband router share a UPS, giving hours of runtime and instant push-alerts the moment mains drops. Power loss is treated as a security event, logged and reported like any intrusion.
3. Security-Grade Alarm System—No Extra Box Required
Any motion sensor, door contact—even a temperature probe—can double as a guard sensor. Create unlimited alarm groups that lock doors, trigger sirens or ping your monitoring company—all in the same interface that handles lighting scenes.
4. Tamper-Proof Event Journal & Instant Mobile Alerts
An immutable database records every actuator click and intrusion attempt. Need to prove a delivery arrived at 14 : 07? The evidence is a thumb-tap away.
5. Automatic Nightly Back-ups—Disaster Recovery in Your Pocket
A background service snapshots the hub onto an external micro-SD every night. If the SSD ever fails, pop the card into a replacement hub and you’re back online in minutes—no cloud-lock, no re-pairing.
6. Industrial-Grade SSD—Because Your Hub Deserves a Heart of Steel
SIMO.io specifies enterprise SSDs with superior wear-levelling, so your hub survives years of high-frequency logging without corruption—reliability worthy of a data center, mounted in your hallway.
7. Colonel-Series Edge Controllers—The Game Changer Boards™
Critical macros reside locally on DIN-rail boards. If someone unplugs the hub, wall switches still toggle lights and blinds keep responding. Basic comfort continues; advanced scenes resume automatically when the hub reboots.
8. Open-Source Transparency—Auditable by Anyone, Anytime
SIMO.io is the first pro-to-pro, open-source smart-home platform. Installers and auditors can verify that:
- No data leaves your LAN unencrypted.
- No secret cloud calls.
- Security patches are public the second they land.
9. You Control Feature Updates
Security-critical Linux patches are auto-applied; features install only when you tap “Upgrade”. Packages come via TLS and pip hash-checking—you decide what runs in your house, and when.
10. Offline-First Architecture & End-to-End Encryption
Internet down? SIMO.io keeps running on-prem. Remote traffic is double-wrapped (TLS + AES-256) before it leaves the hub and is decrypted only on your phone. Even SIMO’s relay servers see nothing but ciphertext.
Why It Matters—A Rapid Comparison
| SIMO.io | Wi-Fi Gadgets | Zigbee / Z-Wave Mesh | Cloud-Only Hubs | DIY Raspberry Pi | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Transport Medium | PoE cabling | Wi-Fi | Sub-GHz radio | Mixed | Wi-Fi / USB RF |
| Radio Attack Surface | None | High | Medium | High | High |
| Battery Required | No | Yes | Yes | Yes (often) | Yes / No |
| UPS Support | Built-in | Rare | Rare | Rare | Optional |
| Autonomous Edge Control | Yes | No | Limited | No | No |
| Open Source | Yes | No | Partial | No | Yes |
| Enterprise-Grade Storage | SSD | eMMC | eMMC | eMMC | SD-card |
| User-Controlled Updates | Yes | No | No | No | Yes (complex) |