home automation

Terms from Artificial Intelligence: humans at the heart of algorithms

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Home automation is when some aspects of the home, such as lights or heating, are controlled by some form of digital assistant, such as a smart speaker. Then term can be used more generally to fully autonomous smart homes, but is more usually applied to those systems command by the human user.

Used in Chap. 1: page 7; Chap. 13: pages 203, 216, 217; Chap. 15: page 240; Chap. 16: page 255; Chap. 19: pages 315, 318; Chap. 24: page 402