Our story
Edoardo Stefanini is the founder and driving force behind ShineStroke. With more than fifteen years of experience designing and building electrical and automation systems across Italy – often with a focus on sustainability – he has seen first‑hand how technology in the home has evolved. Despite the proliferation of connected devices, he noticed that people still rely on the same basic controls that have been around for a century: wall switches and, more recently, voice assistants. To Edoardo, this meant residents were still “slaves” to interfaces rather than truly living in a smart environment.
In 2023 he founded ShineStroke with the ambition of revolutionising domestic living. Roughly a year later, his attention turned to the emerging Wi‑Fi 7 sensing technology. The idea that radio waves themselves could detect presence, movement and even posture sparked the realisation that his vision of a genuinely intelligent home was achievable. From that moment he began developing Entity – a software layer designed to abolish reliance on physical switches altogether. Edoardo’s conviction is that by 2026 homes should no longer depend on hardware conceived a hundred years ago. Rather than perpetuating a market that sells plates, buttons, supports and relays, he wants to free domestic spaces from outdated constraints. Entity is the first step toward a future where a house understands its occupants and responds autonomously, allowing people to live naturally without reaching for a switch.