Kenji Sato

Home automation integrator focused on standards-based, hub-agnostic deployments that survive vendor shifts.

Open, documented protocols are the only sustainable foundation for smart locks.

When a vendor killed its bridge, a client’s automations died overnight. Because we’d chosen Zigbee locks and documented flows, I rebuilt everything on a local controller in a weekend. That migration cemented my rule: prefer open, test offline, and design for graceful failure and future swaps.

I prefer devices with local APIs and standards compliance, even if initial setup is harder.