Are you actually buying a new smart home?

Smart Homes, If you look it up in the Oxford dictionary it says…

smart home

noun

a home equipped with lighting, heating, and electronic devices that can be controlled remotely by phone or computer.

“you can contact your smart home on the Internet to make sure the dinner is cooked, the central heating is on, the curtains are drawn, and a gas fire is roaring in the grate when you get home”

This definition really isn’t 100% correct. A smart home is not just a house with some smart home devices installed in it. If you install a Ring Doorbell in your home, you don’t have a smart home. You have a smart home device installed. The issue I have with this definition is connectivity. A smart home is not a collection of smart devices. It is a home that has smart home products that are interconnected with a smart home hub or similar system. If those items are not connected to each other then there is nothing smart about it. What brought this up? One of our Florida listeners brought up that they were out looking for homes in Central Florida. They stopped into one large developer that was promoting smart homes. These homes had a handful of smart home devices there that the homeowner had to self-install (Most likely so they would not have to service it) and it was on them to make it work. I am sorry…. This is not a smart home. I think with builders marketing smart homes and supplying a handful of smart devices they could be getting themselves in trouble if someone wants to make a deal out of it. If new home builders want to embrace smart home technology, they are going to have to dive into it and do it.