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Edge-AI smart home — early access

A smart home where your data stays home.

A1 Home Manager is A1SI's productized derivative of the open-source Home Assistant platform — preconfigured, hardened, and edge-AI-accelerated on an NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano. Run computer vision, local voice, and machine-learning automations entirely on-device, with the option to run completely off-grid. No cloud round-trip, no household data leaving the building.

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Inside A1 Home Manager

Edge AI that runs your home — not someone else's cloud.

A1 Home Manager pairs the open-source Home Assistant platform with the NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Super — 67 TOPS of AI performance, 1024 CUDA cores, and 32 Tensor cores on a system-on-module that lives in your network closet, not in a data center. Computer-vision NVR, conversational voice, energy optimization, and sensor-fusion automations all run on the appliance, in the home, with the option to run with no internet path at all.

  • Unmatched privacy — off-grid capableVoice commands, camera feeds, and household sensor data are processed locally on the Jetson, not sent to a cloud server. The system can run completely off-grid: no internet, no telemetry, no third-party data path. Your household activity stays where it belongs.
  • Faster, proactive responsesEdge AI means no round-trip to a cloud server. The home anticipates needs from local sensor data and reacts in real time — lights, climate, and routines respond at the speed of the room, not the speed of the internet.
  • Multimodal sensor fusionFuse data from millimeter-wave presence sensors, microphone arrays, and cameras into a single AI-driven understanding of the home. Not just "a person is present" — "John is in the living room, sitting on the couch, and just said it's movie time."
  • Hyper-local weather and microclimate modelsCombine data from rain gauges, thermometers, humidity sensors, and a sky-facing camera into a hyper-local forecast that's far more accurate for your specific location than a regional forecast — running on the same Jetson that drives the rest of the home.
  • Predictive maintenance for the buildingSophisticated ML models analyze vibration, current draw, and acoustic streams from furnaces, pumps, HVAC, and appliances to predict failures before they happen. The kind of analysis that used to live in industrial SCADA, scaled to a single home.
  • Beyond voice — full acoustic awarenessTrained audio-event detection recognizes specific sounds — a smoke alarm, a baby crying, a window breaking, glass shattering — for automations that don't involve a person speaking at all. The home listens for what matters, not just for wake words.

What's in the appliance

The open Home Assistant ecosystem, accelerated.

A1 Home Manager keeps full compatibility with the Home Assistant integration catalog — every device, every protocol, every add-on the open-source community has built — and adds GPU-accelerated AI add-ons that turn the Jetson's parallel-compute headroom into real automations.

Frigate NVR — local AI object detection

The popular Home Assistant NVR add-on, GPU-accelerated. Real-time object detection across camera streams with near-instant identification of people, vehicles, pets, packages, and more. No cloud subscription; recordings stay in the home.

Home Assistant Assist — local voice, on-device LLM

Speech-to-Text, Text-to-Speech, and a local Large Language Model all run on the Jetson's GPU for full conversational queries that understand context. Wake word, intent, and response — start to finish, in the appliance, with no audio leaving the home.

Ollama Vision — local multimodal image analysis

The Ollama Vision add-on runs multimodal AI models locally, analyzing camera frames on demand: read text in an image, describe a scene, answer questions about what a camera sees. Rapid GPU-accelerated inference, fully on-device.

Machine-learning energy optimization

Run custom ML models that predict household energy consumption and optimize the timing of high-power appliances — heat pumps, EV chargers, water heaters — so you cut the bill without giving up comfort. The math runs on the Jetson; no third-party energy service required.

AI-powered presence detection

Fuse Bluetooth, UWB, camera, and mmWave radar signals through an AI model trained on your home — accurate, real-time presence detection that no single sensor can deliver. Triggers automations based on where people actually are, not where the system guesses.

iOS + Android companion apps — planned

Native iOS and Android apps for remote dashboard access, push notifications, and mobile-native automations are on the v1.0 roadmap. The full web dashboard is responsive today and works in any modern mobile browser; the native apps are next.

Close-up of the NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano module — 1024 CUDA cores and 32 Tensor cores on a system-on-module the size of a credit card

An edge-AI appliance, end to end

NVIDIA Ampere on a module — engineered for the home.

A1 Home Manager runs on the NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Super — NVIDIA Ampere architecture, 1024 CUDA cores, and 32 Tensor cores delivering up to 67 TOPS of AI performance on a system-on-module the size of a credit card. AI workloads that used to require a server rack now live in the network closet.

AI performance
67 TOPS (Jetson Orin Nano Super)
GPU
1024 CUDA cores + 32 Tensor cores
Architecture
NVIDIA Ampere + 6-core ARM CPU
Data path
100% on-device, off-grid capable

Why A1 Home Manager

The smart home you already wanted — finally on hardware that can run it.

Privacy by design

A1 Home Manager runs every AI workload — voice, vision, sensor fusion, energy ML — locally on the Jetson Orin Nano. Voice commands, camera feeds, and household activity are processed in the appliance and never sent to a third-party cloud. The system can run completely off-grid: no internet path at all, no telemetry, no inadvertent data leak. The privacy story isn't a setting; it's the architecture.

Edge AI, not cloud AI

67 TOPS of NVIDIA Ampere horsepower sits in the network closet, not in a data center. Multimodal sensor fusion, conversational LLM responses, object detection across camera streams, and predictive ML on appliance telemetry all run in real time on the appliance — no cloud round-trip latency, no internet outage degrading the home, no subscription gating the intelligence you've already paid for.

Built on the open Home Assistant ecosystem

A1 Home Manager is A1SI's productized derivative of the open-source Home Assistant platform — preconfigured, hardened, and edge-AI-accelerated. Every integration, every device, every add-on from the Home Assistant catalog works here. We took the best open smart-home platform on the planet and turned it into a productized appliance, with the AI add-ons (Frigate, Assist, Ollama Vision, energy ML, AI presence) configured and accelerated out of the box.

Questions & answers

Frequently asked questions

What is A1 Home Manager?

A1 Home Manager is A1SI’s productized derivative of the open-source Home Assistant platform — preconfigured, hardened, and edge-AI-accelerated on an NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano. It runs computer vision, local voice, and machine-learning automations entirely on-device, and can run completely off-grid with no cloud round-trip and no household data leaving the building.

Is it affiliated with Home Assistant or the Open Home Foundation?

No. Home Assistant is a registered trademark of the Open Home Foundation. A1 Home Manager is an independent, productized derivative built on the open-source Home Assistant platform; A1SI is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Open Home Foundation. It keeps full compatibility with the Home Assistant integration catalog — every device, protocol, and community add-on works here.

How does it keep my data private?

Privacy is the architecture, not a setting. Voice commands, camera feeds, and household sensor data are processed locally on the Jetson and never sent to a third-party cloud. The system can run entirely off-grid — no internet path, no telemetry, no third-party data path — so your household activity stays in the home.

What hardware does it run on?

The reference hardware is the NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Super — NVIDIA Ampere architecture with 1024 CUDA cores and 32 Tensor cores, delivering up to 67 TOPS of AI performance on a system-on-module the size of a credit card, alongside a 6-core ARM CPU. Those figures are NVIDIA’s published Jetson Orin Nano Super specifications; workload-specific performance depends on configuration.

What AI features does it include?

It adds GPU-accelerated AI add-ons on top of Home Assistant: Frigate NVR for local AI object detection across camera streams, Home Assistant Assist for local voice with an on-device LLM, Ollama Vision for local multimodal image analysis, machine-learning energy optimization, and AI-powered presence detection that fuses Bluetooth, UWB, camera, and mmWave radar — all running on the appliance, in the home.

Can I buy it yet?

Not yet. A1 Home Manager is in pre-release / early access — feature scope, hardware availability, pricing, and release timing are subject to change, and there is no public hardware-purchase flow today. Native iOS and Android companion apps are planned for v1.0; the responsive web dashboard works in any modern mobile browser today. Join the early-access list to get the first units when the appliance ships.

Plans & availability

How to get A1 Home Manager.

A1 Home Manager is a hardware + software appliance in early access. Join the list to get the first units when it ships and to shape the automations that matter most for your home.

A1 Home Manager is in early access; pricing and configuration are arranged directly per home — there is no online checkout. Request pricing and we will follow up as units become available.

Bring real AI home — without giving up your privacy.

A1 Home Manager is in early access. Join the list to get the first units when the appliance ships, follow the build, and shape the AI automations that matter most for your home.

A1 Home Manager is in pre-release / early access. Feature scope, hardware availability, pricing, and release timing are subject to change. Home Assistant is a registered trademark of the Open Home Foundation. A1 Home Manager is an independent, productized derivative built on the open-source Home Assistant platform; A1SI is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Open Home Foundation. Edge-AI performance figures are NVIDIA's published Jetson Orin Nano Super specifications; workload-specific performance depends on configuration.