Think of everything being connected to a "Home Computer" in those "Future House of 2020" videos that were out there in 70s or what not.
Another example (very rough) would be something like "Weather data gets to a small model via an API, model looks at it, updates the home dashboard, also sees if there's any alerts, if so, adds x or y to home dashboard appropriately as to what it thinks best."
We can probably achieve the latter example today. (without any significant 'coding' on anyone's part except the API owner)