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Your footage lives in someone else's cloud
Most consumer cameras upload your family's video to third-party servers, then charge a monthly fee to let you watch it back.
Privacy-first · Self-hostable · One app for your home
The AI brain for your entire home
Akita turns any Wi-Fi camera into an intelligent security system — person, face, and fall detection with natural-language search — and controls your smart plugs today, with app-controlled water motors and every home appliance coming next. Your data stays on hardware you own.
- No subscription lock-in
- Encrypted & local-first
- Works with any RTSP camera
Works with Tapo · Reolink · Hikvision · Dahua · CP Plus · EZVIZ · Imou and any RTSP/ONVIF camera.
The problem we're solving
Today's “smart” home is fragmented, expensive, and quietly spying on you.
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Every device is its own island
Cameras, plugs, motors, and appliances each need a different app and account. Nothing talks to each other.
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Alerts are noise, not intelligence
You get pinged for every passing car and shadow, but never a clear answer to “did someone fall?” or “who came home?”.
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Real automation is locked behind subscriptions
Want to switch on the water motor from the office, or automate appliances? That's a premium plan — per device, forever.
Akita replaces this mess with one private, intelligent platform for security and automation across your whole home.
See Akita in action
One dashboard for live cameras, AI events, plain-English search, and every connected device.
Ask Akita
Did anyone come to the door today?
Yes — 3 events. A delivery at 11:04 AM and Alex arrived 6:42 PM.
Turn on the water motor for 15 minutes
✅ Water motor ON — auto-off in 15:00.
Message Akita…➤
🔌Living room plugON
💧Water motorOFF
💡Porch lightON
❄️Bedroom ACOFF
🌀Ceiling fanOFF
🔥GeyserTimer 20m
Interface mockups. Actual dashboard runs on the open Akita stack (Go · Next.js · Python AI).
Key features
Security and automation that's genuinely smart — and genuinely yours.
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On-device AI detection
Motion today; person (YOLO), face recognition (InsightFace), and fall detection on the roadmap — inference on your hardware.
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Any RTSP / ONVIF camera
Bring your own Wi-Fi camera. No vendor lock-in, no proprietary hub, no forced cloud.
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Ask your home anything
“Who came home last?”, “Did someone fall?”, “Show deliveries today.” Get answers, not clip dumps.
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Smart plugs & appliances
Wi-Fi smart plugs (ESP32 / ESP8266) with on/off, timers, and schedules — expanding to full appliance control.
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App-controlled water motor
Start and stop your home water pump from anywhere, with safety auto-off timers and run history.
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Privacy by design
Local-first architecture, AES-256-GCM encrypted credentials, JWT auth, and no mandatory cloud.
Why Akita is different
The only platform that unifies AI security and whole-home automation — privately.
| What matters | Akita | Typical cloud cameras | DIY hubs |
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| Your video stays on your hardware | ✅ Local-first | ❌ Vendor cloud | ⚠️ Varies |
| Works with any RTSP/ONVIF camera | ✅ Yes | ❌ Their brand only | ⚠️ Setup-heavy |
| AI you can actually query | ✅ Natural language | ⚠️ Basic alerts | ❌ None |
| Security + appliance automation in one app | ✅ Unified | ❌ Separate apps | ⚠️ Manual wiring |
| Water motor & heavy appliance control | ✅ On the roadmap | ❌ No | ⚠️ Custom only |
| Monthly fee to see your own footage | ✅ None | ❌ Subscription | ✅ None |
Our vision: the whole home, one app
We're building the end-to-end solution to run every appliance in your home from a single, private app — starting with the devices people forget most.
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AI security cameras
Live view, motion & event detection, timeline, and natural-language search across your cameras.
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Wi-Fi smart plugs
Akita smart plugs on ESP32/ESP8266 with on/off, timers, and schedules — one firmware, pairing-code setup.
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Automatic water motor control
Turn your home water pump on/off from the app or a schedule, with auto-off safety timers, tank-level rules, and dry-run protection — no more running to the switch or overflowing tanks.
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Every home appliance
Lights, fans, ACs, geysers, and pumps — controlled and automated from one app, with AI routines like “switch off everything when the house is empty.”
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End-to-end home intelligence
Cameras, sensors, and appliances working together: your home responds to what's actually happening, privately and automatically.
About the team
Akita is built by engineers who want a smart home they can actually trust.
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Abhishek Agarwal
Founder & Engineer
Builds Akita end-to-end — from the ESP32/ESP8266 device firmware to the Go backend, AI pipeline, and product. On a mission to make private, intelligent home automation accessible to everyone.
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Shubham Jangid
Co-Founder & Engineer
Works across Akita's stack — hardware, backend, and product — turning the vision of a fully private, app-controlled home into shipping software and devices.
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We're growing
Founding engineers & design
We're looking for people who care about privacy, embedded systems, and applied AI. Want to help build the home OS? Reach out.
Our mission
Give every household one private, intelligent app to secure and run their entire home — cameras, plugs, water motors, and appliances — without surrendering their data or paying rent on their own devices.
Build the future of the private smart home with us
Follow along, self-host Akita, or get in touch about partnerships and pilots.