The term can also refer to a device that exhibits some properties of ubiquitous computing, including—although not necessarily—machine learning.
Smart devices can be designed to support a variety of form factors, a range of properties pertaining to ubiquitous computing and to be used in three main system environments: physical world, human-centered environments, and distributed computing environments.
Smart homes indicate the presence of sensors and some detection devices, appliances, and a database to control them.
[1] In 1991, Mark Weiser proposed three basic forms for ubiquitous system devices: tabs, pads and boards.
These layers often include the following characteristics: Common types of smart devices include: Weiser's vision for ubiquitous computing can be summarized in terms of two core properties: It is proposed that there are two additional core types of properties for ubiquitous computing systems:[3] However, it is hard to fix a closed set of properties that define all ubiquitous computing devices because of the sheer range and variety of ubiquitous computing research and applications.