Smart homes are built to make life easier, lights that respond to voice commands, cameras that secure your property, and sensors that save energy. But as homes get smarter, they also generate more personal data: your routines, habits, and even your presence at home. If this data is mishandled, privacy risks emerge. In 2025, data privacy is not just a feature — it’s a foundation.

The Data Privacy Risks of Cloud-Dependent Smart Homes

Many mass-market smart home devices depend heavily on cloud servers. Every command, from turning on a light to unlocking a door, may travel through external data centers. This creates multiple risks:

• Exposure of personal routines to third parties.

• Dependence on internet uptime — when the internet is down, your home stops working. If the cloud servers fail, your smart home experience is interrupted and critical functions can break.

• Monetization by vendors, turning your private life into ad targeting opportunities.

For homeowners, this erodes trust. For integrators, it creates long-term reliability headaches.

Local-First: A Better Model

A smarter way is to design systems that run locally first. Processing commands, managing automations, and storing data inside the home ensures that the system continues to function even without internet. Privacy remains in the homeowner’s hands, not on remote servers.

How Cue Protects Your Data

Cue Home is fundamentally designed with privacy and security at its core:

• Local Processing: All device communication, automations, and controls run within the home. Internet is only used for updates and remote access — never for day-to-day control.

• No Data Harvesting: Cue does not sell or monetize user data. Your routines and device logs remain yours alone. Even Cue or Partner can not access your Home system without your Permission.

• Secure Remote Access: When remote access is needed, Cue uses encrypted tunnels — no open ports or exposed gateways.

• Professional Standards: Cue integrates protocols like KNX and Matter, which already follow global security standards, ensuring trusted interoperability.

Why It Matters in India

With millions of new smart homes projected in India by 2027, privacy is becoming a key buying factor. Homeowners are asking tougher questions: Does this system work when Wi-Fi is down? Where is my data stored? Who can access it? Cue is positioned to answer confidently, your home is private, secure, and always works locally.

The Bottom Line

A smart home should empower, not expose. In a world where data is the new currency, Cue ensures your privacy is non-negotiable.

Partner with Cue Home today and deliver smart homes that are not only intelligent, but also private and secure.