Openhabfoundation.org Website Review

we are a non-profit organisation with the mission to educate the public about the possibilities and benefits of free and open smart. more and more new technologies and devices are introduced to our living, working and business environment. although all of them are designed to make our lives easier, we believe they have a common problem: the lack of interoperability, due to incompatible technology stacks and conflicting commercial interests. market consolidation and cooperation between all stakeholders therefore remains a difficult in our vision, system-wide, multi-vendor interoperability can only succeed if it is free from monetary interests. free software is the best option to boost innovation and to make smart home technology available for everybody. furthermore, free software is irreplaceable the software that builds the backbone of smart homes must not be closed or restricted, but that everybody must have the freedom to modify and enhance it. we therefore fully support and help to spread the ideal of free software as proclaimed by the free software the public and also to educate people about as*ociated problems and risks. we specifically believe that smart homes must not mandatorily depend on cloud services, but should work offline as well. this not only as*ures the independency from the internet, but also addresses utmost flexibility to the user and is able to serve as an integration point for most smart home products on the market. it focuses on local integration, following the principle of an intranet of things and has a huge active community of users and developers we are providing guidance and references when professional services are required. we publish apps and plugins in various third-party app stores for reference. local events are the best way to spread the word - we help and provide speakers.