Your Home. Your Data. Your Rules.
Smart homes built on EFF principles. Your data never leaves.
Your Home. Your Data. Your Rules.
Smart homes built on EFF principles. Your data never leaves.
About Ringford
At Ringford, we believe your home should be the most private place in your life
not the most surveilled!
We rehabilitate properties in Kanawha County and equip them with smart home technology that works differently from the big-name alternatives.
Our systems process your data locally, on your property, using open-source platforms like Home Assistant.
No corporate cloud. No data harvesting. No monthly subscriptions.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has recommended local hub-based architectures as the foundation for a secure, private connected home — moving control away from corporate servers and back into your own network. That recommendation is the blueprint we build on.
We're not just landlords who install gadgets. We're a technology company that restores homes and protects the people living in them.
WHY PRIVACY MATTERS
Why Your Smart Home Shouldn't Spy on You
The smart home industry has a surveillance problem.
In 2023 a leading video doorbell company was charged by the FTC
for failing to protect customer privacy.
Ringford was founded to make sure that never happens to you.
Research cited by the EFF found that the vast majority of consumer IoT devices share data with third parties — often without meaningful consent.
Your thermostat knows when you're home.
Your voice assistant records your conversations.
Your doorbell camera maps your visitors.
When all of that data flows to corporate servers, it's no longer yours to control.
Ringford takes a different approach:
Local Processing — Automation and personal data are handled on a hub inside your home, not on servers in California or Virginia.
Open-Source Foundation — We build on Home Assistant, a community-driven platform with no corporate data-collection incentive.
Selective External Access — Only queries that genuinely need current information (weather, traffic) reach outside your network — and you can see exactly when and why.
No Subscriptions, No Lock-In — You own the system.
There are no monthly fees, no proprietary ecosystems, and no vendors holding your data hostage.
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