UGREEN's new smart home platform keeps your AI and storage local, no cloud required

Published Sep 3, 2026, 6:00 PM EDT Jeff's been involved in the IT industry since before the Internet and spent more than 20 years working in technical support, system administration, network administration, and consulting roles. He holds an undergraduate degree in English, a Master's degree in English with a focus on professional writing and editing, and another Master's degree in Computing & Information Systems. After teaching university English and computer science for a few years, Jeff launched his writing career. He's written for Macworld, Tom's Hardware, groovyPost, The Mac Observer, and more before beginning here at XDA. Summary HomeAgent merges local storage, AI, security, and device control into a single smart-home hub. MasterAgent MA100 uses Nvidia Jetson Thor for heavy local AI, runs larger models and developer extensions. Local-first design emphasizes privacy and on-device searches, while some cloud services remain optional. UGREEN is moving well beyond chargers, docks, and network-attached storage. At its Smart Living Launch Event at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts, which I attended on Sept. 1, the company introduced HomeAgent, a new smart home platform built around local storage and AI processing. This marks UGREEN’s first serious foray into AIoT, and the scope is broader than I expected. The lineup ranges from compact HomeAgent hubs to security cameras, a smart speaker, smart displays, and a much more powerful Nvidia Jetson-based system. UGREEN is already advertising its new smart home AIoT lineup inside Gillette Stadium. UGREEN wants HomeAgent to become your smart home's local brain The HA100 combines storage, AI, security, and device control Credit: Source: UGREEN The HomeAgent HA100 and HA100 Pro are the center of the ecosystem and the products that make UGREEN's overall pitch easiest to understand. Instead of treating local storage, smart home control, and AI as separate components, HomeAgent combines them into a single box. Files, photos, security footage, and device activity can all be stored locally, while supported AI processing also happens on the device. UGREEN says the core storage, file management, security, and smart home functions can operate over the local network without a monthly storage fee. That matters because this isn't being positioned as just another Matter hub with a few extra features attached. The HA100 is designed to handle storage, security, computing, and device control together, giving UGREEN a very different starting point from companies that began with bulbs, plugs, or cameras. Matter support enables compatible devices to be integrated into a single system, allowing users to build automation scenes and coordinate multiple devices. It can also search recorded security footage using keywords, which is the kind of feature that makes local AI more useful than simply slapping an "AI" label on the box. UGREEN is also bringing its Uliya voice assistant into the platform. Uliya can control supported devices, check live status or event history, and create voice notifications for things such as a package arriving or a baby crying. The HA100 Pro takes that further with faster networking and improved AI performance, including advanced recognition, contextual device control, and voice-based automation rule creation. That's where the distinction between the regular and Pro models starts to become more meaningful than a basic performance bump. MasterAgent pushes UGREEN's local AI plans much further Nvidia's Jetson Thor gives the MA100 serious processing power The MasterAgent MA100 is where UGREEN's ambitions get much bigger. The company describes it as an agentic AI local hub built around Nvidia's Jetson Thor T5000 platform, with up to 2,070 FP4 TFLOPS of local compute performance. That's far beyond what most people would expect from a conventional smart-home hub, making the MA100 feel less like an accessory and more like a dedicated local AI appliance. UGREEN says the added performance will let MasterAgent run larger models locally, understand more complex context and intent, and coordinate multiple devices and tasks around the home. Developers will also be able to extend it with packages or skills. That developer angle is important because a box this powerful makes more sense if UGREEN can build a broader software ecosystem around it rather than limiting it to a fixed set of first-party functions. The rest of the announced hardware fills out the devices around those hubs. UGREEN showed the SynCare Indoor Cam ID500 Pro, SynCare PoE Cam OD600 Pro, SynCare Battery Cam OD800 Pro, Smart Speaker for Uliya, and UGREEN Gallery. Gallery includes LCD smart frames that can display photos and AI-generated highlight videos from a user's local library. Taken together, the lineup makes it clear that UGREEN isn’t testing the smart-home market with a single standalone device. It's trying to launch the pieces of an ecosystem at once. UGREEN is betting that local AI can differentiate its ecosystem Privacy and useful automation are central to the pitch The part of UGREEN's strategy I find most interesting is that local processing isn't treated as a side feature. It's the foundation of the system. HomeAgent can recognize people, vehicles, pets, and packages, summarize events, surface unusual activity, and search through recorded footage. At the same time, the same platform can work with personal photos and videos stored at home. That's a much more practical use of local AI than simply adding another chatbot to a smart-home app. The part of UGREEN's strategy I find most interesting is that local processing isn't being treated as a side feature. There are still cloud dependencies, and UGREEN is explicit about that. Account registration and authentication, remote access, mobile notifications, software updates, and optional cloud-enabled services may still require an internet connection or cloud services. So "local-first" shouldn't be read as "completely offline." The important distinction is that UGREEN is keeping core storage, device control, and supported AI workloads in-home rather than making cloud processing the default for everything. The launch also expands UGREEN's existing relationship with the New England Patriots. The company named Patriots cornerback Christian Gonzalez its Global Brand Ambassador after becoming the team's Official Tech Accessory Partner earlier this year. "Just like UGREEN, I believe great technology should help people stay prepared, reach their potential, and bring their A-game in the moments that matter most," Gonzalez said during the announcement. Preorders for the HomeAgent HA100, HA100 Pro, and MasterAgent MA100 open Sept.3 through UGREEN's AIoT store, ahead of a Kickstarter campaign scheduled for Oct. 27. Customers can place a deposit of $50 to secure the Super Early Bird price, advertised at 50% off. Additional AIoT accessories are expected to join the campaign when it launches. The bigger question now isn't whether UGREEN wants into the smart-home market. It's whether this local-first approach can give people a reason to build around HomeAgent instead of adding yet another disconnected hub to what they already have.