| Smart home energy technology | Features & functionality | Energy impacts | |
| Sensors | Motion sensors | -Real time detection of occupied areas | -Consume energy only in occupied locations |
| Light sensors | -Real time detection of light level | -Enable daylight harvesting -Enable dimming in function of daylight | |
| Light actuators | Bulbs | -Scheduling, adapt with occupancy and/or daylight -Remotely controllable -Light level & color control | -Replacement of traditional bulb with LEDs -Smart and rules based control -Dimming, daylight harvesting |
| Switches | -Scheduling, adapt with occupancy and/or daylight -Remotely controllable | -Smarter management of bulbs -Feedbacks | |
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| -Possibility of controlling multiple bulbs | -Dimming, daylight harvesting |
| Hubs |
| -Enable/manage interactions between devices -Remotely control multiple devices -Talk different protocols -Rule based control -Different ways of interactions (e.g. vocal) | -Trigger-based control in function of real-time data received from other sources -Scheduling feature across connected devices |