smart home

smart home

English

Noun

smart home (plural smart homes)

1. A home equipped with an automation system controlling such things as lighting, climate, entertainment systems, and appliances.
   • 1989, Philip Elmer-Dewitt, “Boosting Your Home’s IQ,” Time, 23 January, 1989,

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

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

     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.

   • 2023 February 17, Anna Kodé, quoting Suzanne Woods, “Unwanted Connection: Who Has Control of Your Smart Home?”, in The New York Times‎, ISSN 0362-4331:

     “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.”

Translations

home equipped with an automation system

Ukrainian: розу́мний дім (rozúmnyj dim)

See also

• domotic
• Internet of Things