smart home

Definitions

A home equipped with an automation system controlling such things as lighting, climate, entertainment systems, and appliances.

Equivalents

Examples

“McCovey’s smart home is more than a celebrity's novelty item. It is part of a fast-growing industry: home automation.”

“Smart home technologies mean⟳ your heating comes on at the right time, you can manage⟳ your lights from a smartphone, and your dishwasher sends you text messages.”

““Full control⟳ over one’s smart home is, at least in the present⟳ tense, an impossibility,” she said. “Part of that is because the whole purpose of a smart device is to give⟳ up control⟳ to someone or something — whether that is a device, a platform, its code. Users delegate work⟳, thinking or management to smart devices.””

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