The contextual smart home has a set of "common capabilities" and these are features that are shared and available to all aspects of it. Essentially, each dumb sensor or appliance connected to it is modelled and becomes instantly smart and inherits all of these capabilities, to become extremely powerful.
Each sensor, device, appliance, etc. connected to it also becomes part of the whole home context and available (permissions allowing) to everything else. Some examples of common capabilities are:
