What should a smart home be able to do?

Question

Smart House

Actually hello everyone! "I'm writing" a smart home and I'm a little lost in the tasks that it should solve :)
What is now:
- Managing GET requests with a tablet that will be in the wall (Brightness, calls, TTS, etc.)
- Receiving commands from the VK bot (Turn on music, write an alert)
- Getting information from the tablet about its condition
- Security mode (everything turns off and goes to sleep)
- Getting weather from Yandex

Screen muzzle

What do you think should be more of the functions?
I do not take into account the standard functions like: "Turn on the light in the room" or "Turn off the water" - this is a matter of course.

Answer 1

IMHO the first thing to do is to abandon the term smart home in your head. Behind this term is solely a marketing bullshit and nothing more.
Replace it for yourself with "home automation" and then everything becomes easier. Such a term can already be broken down normally. Automation of control of climatic equipment of residential premises, automation of lighting control, etc.
Then you write user cases and break them into subsystems.

Answer 2

Judging by my experience, the most necessary functions of the UD are:
- lighting automation (required with a night light function and scenarios such as watching a movie, reading, sunset)
- humidity control (extraction control in the bathroom, control of humidifiers, control of the dehumidification mode on the condo)
- master - a button in the bedroom that turns everything off (I used a button from Aqara with 4 actions, I recently replaced it with a switch with 7 actions)
- anti-leakage system (leak sensors + motorized ball valves + relays)
- temperature control (temperature sensors + heater control devices, air conditioners, heating radiators)
- fingerprint lock (mega handy thing)
- automatic curtains, they open themselves in the morning, close in the evening
- security system, with smoke, gas, temperature rise, window / door opening, movement
sensors

Answer 3

Automatic activation of ventilation

Answer 4

smart car can sometimes go towards the owner

Answer 5

What UD should be able to do is a consequence of what the user wants. Do you have this list? If not, then I recommend compiling it in the user story format.

Answer 6

If you are in an apartment on the 2+ floor, install a water leakage sensor + a flow switch so that in case of water leakage, turn off the tap (Repair to neighbors will be more expensive)