From what is sold, advertised and extolled: A 'smart' home is a privacy-invasive, locked-in ecosystem which provides questionable, novelty benefits at best. To

From what is sold, advertised and extolled: A 'smart' home is a privacy-invasive, locked-in ecosystem which provides questionable, novelty benefits at best. To me a true smart home would be out of the way, not make itself an object of attention, not something that changes my behaviours, and not have me beholden to a corporation; I argue that smart homes today are not smart at all, just normal devices with different interfaces. A smart-smart home would know when to vacuum, not vacuum on a schedule. It would know when to take the rubbish out, to keep the lights off if I'm sleeping in, and if I want some coffee. It would do all of this offline, without dialling home and without my life collapsing if the system fails or the power goes out. If this sounds too far fetched, that's because it's really smart!