Network event based security and home automation

A wireless access point (WAP) configured to support wireless communications on a wireless local area network (WLAN), and the WAP comprising:

• a plurality of components coupled to one another to form transmit and receive paths for processing wireless communications;
• a non-volatile memory storing network event rules wherein one or more network event rules indicate at least conditional parameters to initiate an action for a targeted device;
• an event detection circuit to gather wireless communications activity at a location of a wireless access point (WAP) of one or more wireless stations in proximity to the WAP, and analyze the gathered wireless communications activity to tag and track behavior of the one or more wireless stations in proximity to the WAP;
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• a rule initiation circuit to initiate an action for a target device indicated by a network event rule, wherein the conditional parameters are satisfied at least in part by the gathered wireless communications activity from the one or more wireless stations matching a tag of the network event rule.