AI-powered services
- Workflow, document, and email automation
- Private, locally hosted LLM assistants — your data stays on your hardware
- AI readiness assessments: where AI helps, and where it doesn’t
Homatica.
Practical AI and smart automation for small businesses and homes
Homatica Consulting LLC designs automation that saves you time, keeps your data on your own hardware, and keeps working when the cloud doesn’t.
Smart home solutions
- Home Assistant design and setup
- Privacy-first local control, no cloud lock-in
- Energy monitoring and climate automation
- Custom device integration with Pico W and MQTT
24+ yearsAutomation architect at Verizon
PatentsAutomation and systems design (browse)
6M msg/secNear real-time outage-tracking pipeline
Hands-on since the ’90sFounded CKC Auto Security
Case studies from the lab
Every service I offer is something I’ve built and run myself.
Denon AVR-3805 integration
Phone, Home Assistant, and voice control for an older amp with no native internet — keep the hardware, modernize the control.
Generalized Pico W IoT firmware
One firmware for every device: auto-registration, database-driven GPIO, local MQTT, zero cloud.
Solar-aware LiFePO4 charger
A legacy charger re-engineered with Pico W, MQTT telemetry, and solar-aware logic.
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