Smart device

Definition
A smart device is a device that is digital, active, computer networked, is user reconfigurable and that can operate to some extent autonomously.

Overview
The term can also refer to a ubiquitous computing device: a device that exhibits some properties of ubiquitous computing including artificial intelligence. Smart devices can be designed to:


 * support a variety of form factors
 * support a range of properties pertaining to ubiquitous computing
 * be used in any combination of three main system environments: physical world, human-centred environments and distributed computing environments.