Since the rise of the smartphone, the term ‘smart’ is used in the loosest possible manner in the current marketing landscape, where ‘smart’ may refer merely to the fact that a device has on-board connectivity. Juniper Research defines a Smart Home as one that is designed to deliver or distribute a number of digital services inside and outside the home, through a range of networked devices.
www.juniperresearch.com/document-library/white-papers/smart-homes-getting-smarter-2017
