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Veera Malisetty built a private, offline smart home system using open-source tools, unifying devices securely while cutting cloud costs and complexity.
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Engineer Veera Malisetty designed a custom smart home platform to unify devices across brands without cloud reliance. Using Home Assistant, Raspberry Pi, Zigbee, and Z-Wave, he built a local, private system controllable via Apple HomeKit. The platform enhances security, avoids outages, reduces fees, and adapts to his family’s routines — a model for efficient, resilient home automation.