Smart Home in a broad sense. As many things that make a home smarter are social not technological in nature, or are dumb technologies. And some ‘smart’ technologies make a home dumber.

We will look at the role of a house from multiple angles.

• Home as a shelter
• Home as a family space
• Home as a productive unit (food, water, energy, products)
• Home as a meeting space
• Home as a working and learning space
• Home as a node or connector in the neighbourhood, as active part of a city
• Home as a platform for sensors whose data is used at home and across the community it is located in
• Home as an actuator platform that actively responds to its own sensor data, and data signals from other sources
• And above all the role of smart residents, in creating such a home.