Why ORA exists

The luxury home automation market offers two kinds of system. The proprietary giants — polished, capable, and quietly dependent on their own cloud, their own dealers, and your data. And the mass-market assistants — convenient, cheap, and built from the ground up to listen, record and monetise everything they hear.

ORA was created for the client who wants neither. Who expects their home to be genuinely intelligent, genuinely private, and genuinely theirs.

Enterprise standards, brought home

Our founder spent a career leading analytics and technology at an industrial scale for global FMCG and healthcare companies — building and running complex systems where reliability was not a feature but an obligation, and where the responsible handling of sensitive data was a legal requirement, not a marketing line.

That background shapes everything ORA does. It is why the intelligence lives locally rather than in the cloud. It is why "always works" is an engineering commitment, not a slogan. And it is why, when we say your data never leaves your home, we mean it in the precise, professional sense of someone who has spent a career being accountable for data.

The way we work

We are deliberately small, deliberately selective, and deliberately hands-on. We work with your architect, interior designer and a Swiss-certified electrician so that the technology disappears into the home rather than imposing on it. We can complement the KNX backbone or build your system from the ground up. And we stay — quietly monitoring, maintaining and evolving your home long after the installation is complete.

One founder's standards. One client's home. No compromise on either.