OPEN SOURCE · AI-NATIVE · DEVELOPER PREVIEW

Stop configuring devices.Tell your home what you want.

AetherIoT is building this experience: an agent turns your request into a home automation you can inspect and approve, then AetherEdge runs it locally under device capabilities, permissions, and safety rules.

See the vision and today's foundation

AVAILABLE NOW: LOCAL RUNTIME, RULES, ALARMS, AND SAFETY INTERLOCKS · IN DEVELOPMENT: CONVERSATIONAL HOME SETUP

TARGET EXPERIENCE · NIGHT ENERGY SAVING CONCEPT DEMO

Illustrative data—not a statement of current device compatibility. Conversational home setup is still in development.

IN THE TARGET EXPERIENCE, YOU COULD SAY

“After 10 p.m., turn off the living-room light when nobody has been there for 10 minutes, set climate to 26°C, and only notify me if the door is unlocked.”

  • ENTRYEntry lockLocal stateLocked
  • LIVING ROOMLiving-room lightWaiting for checksOff
  • LIVING ROOMLiving-room climateEfficiency mode26°C
  • LIVING ROOMAir qualityCO₂ 612 ppmGood
  • LIVING ROOMPresence sensorLocal sensingEmpty for 12 min
TARGET FLOWThe automation runs only after its checks pass

After 22:00 + empty for 10 min → lights off / climate 26°C / notify if unlocked

AetherContracts checksAetherEdge runs locally
REVIEW FIRSTInspect and approve before execution
CHECK PERMISSIONSReject invalid or unauthorized actions
RUN LOCALLYDevice control follows in-home safety rules
RUN OFFLINEApproved local automations can continue

WHY AETHER

Stop configuring devices. Start describing outcomes.

Traditional automation asks people to translate life into entities, triggers, conditions, and actions. Aether is building the governed runtime foundation for agents to do that work safely.

01 · DIRECTION

Start with human intent

The product direction replaces configuration screens with conversation: describe the outcome, constraints, and duration instead of programming devices by hand.

02 · FOUNDATION

Compile intent into governed change

Typed capabilities, revisions, permissions, confirmation, and audit turn model output into inspectable artifacts—not direct device calls.

03 · AVAILABLE

Execute without the model

AetherEdge runs commissioned acquisition, rules, alarms, history, and safety locally, even when the agent, cloud, or internet disappears.

THE OPERATING PRINCIPLE

“Agents propose home automations. Permissions and safety rules check them. The in-home edge runtime executes them.”
EVERYDAY NEEDSINSPECTABLE AUTOMATIONSLOCAL EXECUTION

ONE AI-NATIVE SYSTEM

Reason, verify, and execute—without blurred authority.

The beta already provides deterministic edge execution, governed application boundaries, public contracts, agent-readable docs, and cloud foundations. Conversational generation, simulation, and continuous adaptation remain explicit product direction.

01

DETERMINISTIC EDGE

AetherEdge

The Linux runtime that owns live state and executes commissioned behavior without placing an LLM in the real-time loop.

Explore the edge runtime 02

AGENT AND CONTROL PLANE

AetherCloud

The evolving home for agent context, desired state, governed jobs, integrations, and provider-native cloud coordination.

See the cloud foundation 03

TYPED INTEROPERABILITY

AetherContracts

The language-neutral source of truth that keeps capabilities and messages type-safe, versioned, portable, and testable.

Inspect the contracts
INDUSTRY SOLUTIONAetherEMS

The first domain solution built on AetherIoT, supplying energy semantics and safety constraints without changing platform authority.

ONE DOCUMENTATION HOME

Separate the shipped foundation from the product direction.

Follow the AI-native architecture, inspect current capabilities, and verify exactly which pieces are implemented, experimental, or planned.

AI-native platform

See how conversation becomes a governed plan and deterministic edge behavior.

Overview

Product boundaries, authority, deployments, and user journeys.

AetherEdge

Install and build with the edge runtime, Kernel, CLI, and SDK.

AetherCloud

Understand the cloud fusion and governed control plane.

AetherContracts

Use the shared protocol, schemas, fixtures, and TCK.

Edge–Contracts–Cloud integration guide

Follow the complete AetherEdge → AetherContracts → AetherCloud integration flow.

Compatibility

Choose tested product and contract version combinations.

Roadmap

Separate implemented, experimental, and planned capabilities.

FOUNDATION AVAILABLE TODAY

Give an agent real capabilities—not folklore.

Start with a safe-empty edge runtime. Let an agent inspect typed capabilities and documentation before it proposes any change.

Read the documentation
QUICKSTART
$ git clone github.com/EvanL1/AetherEdge
$ cd AetherEdge
$ cargo run -p aether-example-minimal-gateway

# local composition · no broker · no cloud · no device

THE INTERFACE BECOMES A CONVERSATION

Describe how the physical space should behave.

Build the open foundation that lets agents generate change while contracts, policy, and deterministic edge execution keep it real.

Explore the architecture Read the docs