Fortsmith Essential Home is the intelligent home system that keeps your family safe, organized, and together — without giving your data to Amazon, Google, or anyone else.
See what's possible →Most smart home systems make a trade: convenience in exchange for your privacy.
Your cameras stream to Amazon's servers. Your thermostat learns your schedule and sells it. Your security system charges $50 a month to store footage you'll never see.
Fortsmith Essential Home makes a different trade: everything stays home.
Your cameras. Your family's schedule. Your shopping list. Who came home when. All of it — processed in your home, owned by your family, shared with no one.
Smart home. Private home. Your home.
Not in a data center somewhere — right inside your walls. Ask Keep what's on the calendar today. Tell Keep to announce dinner. Ask Keep if the front door is locked. Keep knows your home. Keep knows your family. Keep answers in seconds.
School pickups, work schedules, appointments, birthdays. Keep shows today's plan every morning and reminds whoever needs reminding.
Grocery. Home and repairs. Costco run. Keep adds items by voice. Family checks things off from anywhere. The pitcher's always full because someone remembered.
Assign it, see it, celebrate it. Keep announces "Nice work, Dane" when the trash gets taken out. Families are weird — lean into it.
Upload family photos to the dashboard. When the screen goes idle, your home becomes a gallery of the people in it. The kids at the lake. The dog at Christmas. The grandparents at the table.
"Hey Keep, tell everyone dinner's at 6." Keep announces it through every camera speaker in the house. No more yelling up the stairs.
Motion detection, door and window sensors, glass break detection, smoke and fire monitoring. All running locally, all alerting you directly — not a monitoring center.
Fortsmith scans your home network for threats in real time. Intrusion detection, DNS filtering, secure VPN. Your router was never this smart.
Watch your home from anywhere. Footage stays on your hardware. No one else sees it. No subscription required to access your own cameras.
Everything Fortsmith Essential Home does happens on hardware in your home. Your footage, your family's schedule, your habits, your conversations — they live in your home and nowhere else.
We don't have a data center full of your family's information. We can't sell it because we don't have it.
That's the point.
For the family that wants a smart home without the fine print.
For the homeowner who's tired of paying $50/month for cameras that stream to Amazon.
For the tech-aware buyer who knows what "cloud processing" actually means — and wants no part of it.
For the household that just wants the lights to work, the groceries to get bought, and to know everyone got home safe.
A Fortsmith-certified installer sets up Essential Home in a day. Cameras, sensors, smart home devices, the Keep brain. You come home to a home that works.
Your routines, your preferences, your family's schedule. Keep builds a picture of your home in the first week.
From that point on — security, calendar, shopping, cameras, voice control, family announcements. All of it. No monthly bill.
No. We bring everything — cameras, sensors, the Keep brain. Your installer handles setup.
Lights, locks, thermostats, appliances — anything that speaks Zigbee, Z-Wave, or WiFi. Most major brands work.
Everything keeps working. Security monitoring, cameras, voice control — none of it requires internet. You just lose remote access until it's back.
An alarm system reacts. Keep thinks. It notices patterns, answers questions, coordinates your family, and handles security as one part of a larger picture.
Yes. Fortsmith Essential Home is the foundation. Care monitoring can be added for families with a loved one who needs extra attention.