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Live Testbed · Home Automation · Edge Computer Vision — 2023 — Present

Ayanthiara Chitrakoot

Live residential automation laboratory for sensing, resilience, and local edge perception.

The Ayanthiara live floorplan with room light controls

Vœrynth OS live view

The Ayanthiara wall tablet main view with cameras, climate and scenes

Overview

Ayanthiara Chitrakoot serves as the live real-world proving ground where Vœrynth principles, millimeter-wave radar presence sensing, local AI voice pipelines, and power fallback systems are tested under daily operational stress.

Challenge

Simulated home automation environments fail to capture the unpredictability of human habitation, device brownouts, sensor drift, and intermittent mesh network failures.

Approach

Treating the living environment as an instrumentation rig. Multi-sensor nodes feed a centralized edge orchestrator backed by uninterruptible battery power and independent recovery watchdogs.

Architecture

  1. 01

    Sensing Matrix: Ceiling-mounted mmWave micro-radar arrays for true continuous presence without optical privacy intrusion.

  2. 02

    Edge Vision: Local Frigate NVR analyzing thermal and RTSP streams entirely on-premise with zero cloud upload.

  3. 03

    Power Subsystem: Dedicated dual-tier online UPS backing compute, switching fabric, and magnetic lock strikes during mains outages.

  4. 04

    Acoustic Node: Custom Malayalam-enabled local voice nodes (Ammu AI) integrated directly into local room automation.

  5. 05

    Physical Manual Path: Hardwired rocker bypasses ensuring lights and access function even if every microprocessor is depowered.

Specifications

Active Nodes
140+ telemetry and actuation points
Perception Latency
< 120ms presence-to-action
Mains Interruption Buffer
4.5 hours full-stack UPS runtime
Privacy Rating
100% on-premise (No video/audio leaks)

Stack

Home Assistant OS · Frigate NVR · ESP32 Custom Nodes · Zigbee / Z-Wave Mesh · MQTT Bus · Local LLM · APC Smart-UPS

Attribution

Private residential research laboratory engineered and maintained by KK Achari.