Smart-home household policy implementations for facilitating occupant progress toward a goal

A system, comprising:

• a processor, configured to:
• receive a household policy for a household, the household policy related to attaining an end goal;
• determine, via interpretation of the household policy an end goal state of the household policy;
• incrementally modify a control trigger threshold of a conditionally controlled smart device over time until the end goal state is reached;
• determine when the control trigger threshold is breached;
• and
• providing a control signal to a conditionally controlled smart device when the threshold is breached;
• and
• the conditionally controlled smart device, configured to:
• receive the control signal from the processor;
• and
• modify operation based upon the control signal.

A tangible, non-transitory, machine-readable medium, comprising instructions to:

• receive a household policy for a household, the household policy related to attaining an end goal;
• determine, via interpretation of the household policy an end goal state of the household policy;
• and
• incrementally modify a control trigger threshold of a conditionally controlled smart device over time until the end goal state is reached;
• determine when the control trigger threshold is breached;
• and
• providing a control signal to a conditionally controlled smart device when the threshold is breached;
• wherein the conditionally controlled smart device is configured to:
• receive the control signal from the processor;
• and
• modify operation based upon the control signal.