Kai Kreuzer of Deutsche Telekom AG presented on building an independent, open source, and modular smart home system called Eclipse SmartHome. The system runs on any platform and includes tools for discovery, setup and configuration, a rule engine for automation, data handling via a REST API, user interfaces, voice enabling capabilities, integration of various devices, and persistence of data through memory, local storage or cloud-based options. Kreuzer demonstrated the system during his presentation.