It's still early days. Niche, maker domain. Pieces of the puzzle are emerging such as the low cost "wino board". (I'm looking forward to this). Keeping costs do

It's still early days. Niche, maker domain. Pieces of the puzzle are emerging such as the low cost "wino board". (I'm looking forward to this). Keeping costs down allows more experiments and creative mixing and matching. Intranet of things is important too. People want a connected but secure and private home. Things are personal. Do we really need or want Google in our fridge? If the fridge senses only one egg left in egg compartment, there needs to be options for how that information is then made available to members of the household. Google cloud, sure. But also more private exclusive services too with a focus on privacy not advertising and "link with Google profile in order to use this feature" nonsense. Sensors, logic and easily configured rules are important. We want to sense whether the cat has walked downstairs or a human. Cat doesn't need night light. How many humans are now downstairs, maybe one is sitting still in a chair, the other moving around. A smart house knows all this.. Via low cost sensors and a reliable rules engine, standards and easily configured without tech knowledge. Still a way to go. It needs to easy like piecing together Lego. Depending on your home and things and people in your life you will have a different arrangement of connections.