25 May 2026
First Soter units installed in Dunedin homes
Our real-home trial begins — weatherproof units on real front doors across Ōtepoti Dunedin.
Installation has begun for our funded real-home accessibility trial, Over the next fortnight, eight Dunedin households will have a Soter unit fitted at their front door, along with a door sensor and the occupant app.
Every home is different, and that's the point. Installs are tailored household by household: mounting position, camera angle, and the low-voltage power feed routed through the door jamb on a thin ribbon cable. The households in the trial represent a genuine range of access needs — mobility, vision, hearing, and communication — because the front door has to work for everyone, not just the average visitor.
Each home starts with a quiet baseline week: Soter records doorstep activity but doesn't interact, so we can measure how the door works today before we change anything. Then the conversations begin.
