Apple has plans to beef up features for its Home app — Apple World Today

What’s more, smart home networks often need to be reconfigured, sometimes extensively, as old equipment is replaced with new equipment. Apple says that despite the many advantages that smart home technology brings to society, there is a need for smart home systems that can allow lay-consumers to more easily customize, scale, and reconfigure their homes in a more effortless and user friendly manner. 

Here’s the summary of the invention: “In some embodiments, a method comprises receiving floor plan data corresponding to at least one of a location, dimensions, or orientation of one or more walls defining at least one room of a building; receiving sensor data corresponding to detected activity within the at least one room of the building; determining a type of the at least one room of the building based on the detected activity; and modifying the floor plan data to include the determined type of the at least one of the one or more rooms, wherein a visual representation of the floor plan data is operable to be output on a display device. The method can further include determining an area of the at least one room of the building, where determining the type of the at least one room can be further based on the area of the at least one room.

Patent number 20200301499 is for an “automated environment providing feedback based on user routine.” This would allow your interactions with HomeKit-compatible accessories to provide feedback to you based on your usage patterns.