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Buzz 1: For some, a \u2018smart house\u2019 is chock-full of gadgets that automate or monitor almost every conceivable part of a house. For others, a smart house is extreme simplicity with only the slightest of technological intrusions as necessity demands\u2026Apple\u2019s Home app, Google\u2019s Nest, Google\u2019s Home app, Airthinx air quality monitors, myQ smart garage doors, Dyson app, Wemo app, Nanoleaf, a Govee Home app. [forbes.com] Buzz 2: Managing smart home is hard. \u201cYou do need an ecosystem, fundamentally, because you can\u2019t say, \u2018Oh, here\u2019s your brand-new house, but oh, now you\u2019ve got 300 apps with 300 passwords and you now need to connect them all up yourself, and you\u2019ve got to figure out how all these things attach to your wireless network.\u201d [KB Home VP Dan Bridleman Bridleman] Buzz 3: Increasingly, what makes a home smart\u2026is the fundamentals of what a home is supposed to provide: heat, light, shelter, power\u2026a smart house does its job. Even when your power provider doesn\u2019t, or can\u2019t. Buzz 4: At CES 2020, CTA's Steve Koenig suggested the IoT needed a rebrand to the \u201cIntelligence of Things\u201d for the decade ahead\u2026to smartly integrate all these devices in a secure way that makes consumers comfortable sharing the data required to make smart homes truly smart. Builders are front and center in smart home technology conversations. [forbes.com] We\u2019ll ask Lee Miller at RealPage Smart Building, Pierre Calzadilla at Local Logic, Leonard Lee at neXt Curve and Mary Nietschke at RealPage for their take on The Future of Smart Homes & Sustainability: Your Intelligent App Ecosystem?