In the hours after Google announced its agreement to purchase Nest Labs for $3.2 billion, the companies involved in the smart home sector saw their market validated and their potential valuations skyrocket. But after the initial excitement wore off, there was a realization that with this move, the startups will have to step up with making their products smarter and less manual while the big companies need to move from their secretive product development phase into real implementation.

In short, with Google’s monetary muscle behind it and the Nest success so far, the smart home could finally become real. Not the manual implementations that we see today where the consumer has to manually add devices, manually set rules and otherwise tweak their networks with every new app update or device they bring into the home. Instead we’ll see the launch of the anticipatory home — a home where devices…