Your data is your data

The single biggest design decision in OGLAS is that your data never has to leave your site. The hub logs every sensor reading to local storage, and Local keeps the full record on your hardware. There is no OGLAS cloud account, no monthly fee, no “premium tier” that holds the last 90 days of your history hostage.

What this means in practice

• No subscription. Buy the hardware, run it, done. There’s nothing to renew.
• No vendor lock-in. Readings are stored in plain text and easily-parsed binary formats. If you want to move them to a different system in five years, you can. If we disappear in five years, you still have everything.
• No third-party account. No login, no email-and-password to forget, no app store dependency.
• No telemetry. The hub doesn’t phone home. Updates are pulled when you choose, not pushed at 3am.

What we mean by “local”

The hub writes to its own flash, an SD card, or a host you connect (USB, network share, NAS — your choice), and Local runs on your own SBC or laptop. If you want an off-site copy or a remote view, that’s the optional Cloud half — on your own server, your own terms. The decision of where the data goes is always yours.

What it costs

Hardware. That’s it. There’s no recurring revenue model behind OGLAS — what you pay for is the boards, the enclosures, and the time to install them. Everything after that is yours.

The trade-off, honestly

You are responsible for your own backups. Local handles this for you on site, and Cloud can keep a second copy off-site — but the responsibility, like the data, stays yours. That’s the deal: total control comes with total responsibility for the data.