Your Questions, Answered
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ORA designs, installs and maintains private, intelligent home automation for discerning homes in Suisse Romande. The defining difference is that the intelligence lives locally — on a private server inside your home — so your data never leaves your walls, and your home keeps working even when the internet doesn't.
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Those systems are built to send your voice and data to the cloud, where it is stored and monetised. ORA is the opposite: everything is processed on-site, privately. Nothing is harvested, and there is no dependence on a third party's servers.
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es. ORA is designed to complement the KNX systems the finest Swiss homes already rely on. We add the private voice, intelligence, media and interface that KNX alone does not provide — without replacing the trusted backbone your home is built on.
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es — genuinely and naturally, in both French and English, with no rigid command phrases. It is built for real bilingual households, which is why it is a rarity in this market.
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our home keeps working. Because the intelligence runs locally, lighting, climate, blinds and voice control continue to function normally during an outage. This is a core design principle, not an afterthought.
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No. We install with hidden infrastructure and clean lines — no exposed servers, no glowing boxes, no dated touchscreens. The technology is felt, not seen.
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Every ORA home begins with a Blueprint: an on-site technical survey and design session, from which you receive a complete plan and a transparent proposal. If you proceed, the fee is credited in full.