smart home

plural smart homes

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

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

   1989 January 23, Philip Elmer-Dewitt, “Boosting Your Home’s IQ”, in Time

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   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.

   2015 June 9, Nicole Kobie, “How to turn your old house into a smart home”, in The Guardian

   “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.”

   2023 February 17, Anna Kodé, quoting Suzanne Woods, “Unwanted Connection: Who Has Control of Your Smart Home?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN