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
Based in Clendenin, West Virginia - 30 minutes from Charleston's emerging technology corridor Ringford LLC is a privacy-first smart home technology company headquartered in the Elk River.
We build Tiny Intelligence™ (TI) - a smart home platform that processes your data locally, on your own property, using open-source technology like Home Assistant.
No corporate cloud. No data harvesting.
No monthly subscriptions.
The big-name smart home providers send your data to remote servers where it can be mined, sold, or breached.
TI keeps everything on-site.
Your home network stays yours.
This isn't a new idea - it's the right one.
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 deploy TI through the rehabilitation of flood-affected and distressed housing in Kanawha County, West Virginia. Every property we restore becomes a working showcase for what privacy-first smart home technology looks like in practice - secure, efficient, and fully under the homeowner's control.
Ringford is 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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