today’s modern home is powered by smart devices that produce a great amount of data, yet there is little or no integration and compatibility between these devices. smart homes operate as a collection of disconnected islands of smart devices versus a coordinated “system of things.” when internet or cloud services go down, homes are crippled. when they are up and running most, if not all, of the data from the home must be sent to central cloud, increasing hosting costs, bandwidth usage and latency, and compromising privacy and security.