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  • Article
  • Open Access
45 Citations
12,754 Views
17 Pages

3 September 2021

Despite the various benefits offered by smart homes, they have not yet been widely adopted by mainstream users. This study was designed to identify user perceptions in the association between smart home service preference and adoption and to identify...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,010 Views
24 Pages

7 January 2025

Smart homes offer promising opportunities for risk prevention in private households, especially concerning safety and health. For instance, they can reduce safety risks by detecting water leakages quickly and support health by monitoring air quality....

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,591 Views
30 Pages

30 September 2025

Smart home technologies are increasingly powered by artificial intelligence (AI), offering convenience, energy efficiency, and security, but also raising serious concerns around privacy and cybersecurity. This study seeks to explore the factors that...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
7,167 Views
44 Pages

30 January 2024

Smart home (SH) technologies offer advancements in comfort, energy management, health, and safety. There is increasing interest in technology-enabled home services from scholars and professionals, particularly to meet the needs of a growing aging pop...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
8,082 Views
25 Pages

7 November 2022

Despite numerous benefits and developments, smart home technology has not been widely adopted by mainstream users. The purpose of this study is to suggest user-centered smart home design strategies to promote smart home adoption. This study has the f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,291 Views
16 Pages

7 June 2023

An increasing number of residential homes are equipped with smart assistants such as Cortana, Alexa, and Siri. Adoption rates and the frequency of the usage of smart assistants vary across users and residential homes. Building on the theory of uses a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
16,246 Views
19 Pages

24 July 2022

Smart homes embrace advanced technologies and the connectedness of devices that aim to increase consumers’ life quality. They are based on data integration over shared platforms collected via sensors and wireless networks. However, although con...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,149 Views
14 Pages

31 August 2023

China’s rapidly aging population and shortage of care resources have made it difficult for its traditional model to meet the home care needs of the elderly. On this premise, China is implementing home digital health interventions based on smart...

  • Article
  • Open Access
45 Citations
8,806 Views
24 Pages

1 November 2019

Smart home energy technology has been verified to be successful for energy reduction in the residential sector. However, the current penetration rate of smart home energy technology is at a low level. Considering the factors of economy, policy, and d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
10,361 Views
12 Pages

17 April 2017

Smart home technologies offer exciting opportunities to promote more efficient uses of energy. For instance, programmable thermostats, centralized lighting controls, and rooftop solar panels all have potential for energy conservation and efficiency....

  • Article
  • Open Access
462 Views
26 Pages

18 November 2025

Alongside technological innovations, the energy transition requires notable behavioral changes in the residential sector. Smart technologies (STs) can support this shift by promoting transparency, energy-conscious behavior, and automated efficiency g...

  • Article
  • Open Access
65 Citations
9,212 Views
20 Pages

18 February 2022

Driven by advanced voice interaction technology, the voice-user interface (VUI) has gained popularity in recent years. VUI has been integrated into various devices in the context of the smart home system. In comparison with traditional interaction me...

  • Review
  • Open Access
190 Citations
40,330 Views
33 Pages

1 June 2021

COVID-19 has disrupted normal life and has enforced a substantial change in the policies, priorities and activities of individuals, organisations and governments. These changes are proving to be a catalyst for technology and innovation. In this paper...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,763 Views
24 Pages

7 April 2021

This study assesses the impact of economic and non-economic incentives to induce demand response in private households. The experiment was realized by a three-months residential phase in which two tenants lived in the Energy Smart Home Lab, an experi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,747 Views
26 Pages

30 May 2024

The green living issues that arise as a result of smart home use in the context of sustainability consumption, at a time when smart homes are being built that can improve the management of electricity, water, gas consumption, and when their use offer...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,291 Views
18 Pages

Smart home devices are becoming more popular over the years. A diverse range of appliances is being created, and Ambient Intelligence is growing in homes. However, there are various producers of these gadgets, different kinds of protocols, and divers...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
10,230 Views
25 Pages

16 September 2017

In recent years, the smart home field has gained wide attention for its broad application prospects. However, families using smart home systems must usually adopt various heterogeneous smart devices, including sensors and devices, which makes it more...

  • Article
  • Open Access
59 Citations
7,334 Views
12 Pages

23 September 2019

With the continuous expansion of sub-ecological problems, it is the question of how to effectively reduce environmental pollution and improve energy efficiency that has become a major challenge. At the same time, the energy consumption of family home...

  • Article
  • Open Access
703 Views
34 Pages

3 November 2025

The increasing adoption of smart home technologies introduces significant cybersecurity and forensic challenges. This necessitates a shift from traditional reactive digital forensics to a more proactive approach to safeguarding these environments. Th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,074 Views
20 Pages

2 November 2022

People can access and obtain services from smart home devices conveniently through fog-enabled smart home environments. The security and privacy-preserving authentication protocol play an important role. However, many proposed protocols have one or m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
3,378 Views
20 Pages

Toward Smart Home Authentication Using PUF and Edge-Computing Paradigm

  • Tsu-Yang Wu,
  • Fangfang Kong,
  • Liyang Wang,
  • Yeh-Cheng Chen,
  • Saru Kumari and
  • Jeng-Shyang Pan

25 November 2022

The smart home is a crucial embodiment of the internet of things (IoT), which can facilitate users to access smart home services anytime and anywhere. Due to the limited resources of cloud computing, it cannot meet users’ real-time needs. There...

  • Article
  • Open Access
46 Citations
9,400 Views
22 Pages

13 March 2021

Contemporarily, almost all the global IT giants have aimed at the smart home industry and made an active strategic business layout. As the early-stage and entry-level product of the voice-enabled smart home industry, the smart speakers have been goin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,639 Views
27 Pages

An Evolutionary Game Theoretic Analysis of Cybersecurity Investment Strategies for Smart-Home Users against Cyberattacks

  • N’guessan Yves-Roland Douha,
  • Masahiro Sasabe,
  • Yuzo Taenaka and
  • Youki Kadobayashi

6 April 2023

In the digital era, smart-home users face growing threats from cyberattacks that threaten their privacy and security. Hence, it is essential for smart-home users to prioritize cybersecurity education and training to secure their homes. Despite this,...

  • Review
  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,570 Views
21 Pages

5 October 2021

The ageing population increases the demand for customized home care. As a result, sensing technologies are finding their way into the home environment. However, challenges associated with how users interact with sensors and data are not well-research...

  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
17,901 Views
13 Pages

Smart Home Automation—Use Cases of a Secure and Integrated Voice-Control System

  • Sitalakshmi Venkatraman,
  • Anthony Overmars and
  • Minh Thong

28 October 2021

Smart home automation is expected to improve living standards with the evolution of internet of things (IoT) that facilitate the remote control of residential appliances. There are, however, several factors that require attention for broader successf...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
7,265 Views
19 Pages

14 May 2020

Smart home is one of the most promising applications of the Internet of Things. Although there have been studies about this technology in recent years, the adoption rate of smart homes is still low. One of the largest barriers is technological fragme...

  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
8,714 Views
24 Pages

19 May 2016

As an important component of the smart grid on the user side, a home energy management system is the core of optimal operation for a smart home. In this paper, the energy scheduling problem for a household equipped with photovoltaic devices was inves...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,527 Views
21 Pages

Feasibility of UTS Smart Home to Support Sustainable Development Goals of United Nations (UN SDGs): Water and Energy Conservation

  • Keh-Kim Kee,
  • Huong-Yong Ting,
  • Yun-Seng Lim,
  • Jackie-Tiew-Wei Ting,
  • Marcella Peter,
  • Khairunnisa Ibrahim and
  • Pau Loke Show

27 September 2022

The Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations strive to maximize development needs, while minimizing environmental deterioration, without jeopardizing the needs of future generations. Nevertheless, due to urbanization, the escalating trend...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
5,984 Views
20 Pages

18 June 2020

Maintaining a fair use of energy consumption in smart homes with many household appliances requires sophisticated algorithms working together in real time. Similarly, choosing a proper schedule for appliances operation can be used to reduce inappropr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,289 Views
14 Pages

The rapid growth of the ageing population has increased the attention paid towards the provision of retirement village (RV). RV is a new form of housing on the ageing landscape that provides a full range of care from independent to assisted living to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,489 Views
18 Pages

14 October 2022

The reduction in face-to-face contact and the increase in time spent at home during the ongoing coronavirus disease pandemic have resulted in increasing interest and demand for smart homes. Further, the rapid increase in the number of one-person and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,958 Views
19 Pages

Towards the Real-World Deployment of a Smart Home EMS: A DP Implementation on the Raspberry Pi

  • Giuseppe La Tona,
  • Massimiliano Luna,
  • Annalisa Di Piazza and
  • Maria Carmela Di Piazza

24 May 2019

As the adoption of distributed generation and energy storage grows and the attention to energy efficiency rises, Energy Management is assuming a growing importance in smart homes. Energy Management Systems (EMSs) should be easily deployable on smart...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,024 Views
16 Pages

17 September 2021

With the fast development of infrastructure and communication technology, the Internet of Things (IoT) has become a promising field. Ongoing research is looking at the smart home environment as the most promising sector that adopts IoT and cloud comp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,943 Views
21 Pages

Setup and management of smart home systems is a complex task, and thus challenging for technically inexperienced users. We conducted a qualitative user study to evaluate whether an assistance system could empower users to make better and informed dec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
42 Citations
6,769 Views
16 Pages

25 February 2018

The emergence of smart devices and smart appliances has highly favored the realization of the smart home concept. Modern smart home systems handle a wide range of user requirements. Energy management and energy conservation are in the spotlight when...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,761 Views
20 Pages

2 July 2019

There are currently several systems for home automation and energy management available on the market. These systems are intended to reduce the use of energy, while ensuring optimal and customizable comfort conditions. The advances in technology (Int...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
11,085 Views
21 Pages

Big Data and Personalisation for Non-Intrusive Smart Home Automation

  • Suriya Priya R. Asaithambi,
  • Sitalakshmi Venkatraman and
  • Ramanathan Venkatraman

With the advent of the Internet of Things (IoT), many different smart home technologies are commercially available. However, the adoption of such technologies is slow as many of them are not cost-effective and focus on specific functions such as ener...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,793 Views
14 Pages

13 October 2020

Carbon emission is a prominent issue, and smart urban solutions have the technological capabilities to implement change. The technologies for creating smart energy systems already exist, some of which are currently under wide deployment globally. By...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,740 Views
24 Pages

Investigating the Behavioral Intention of Smart Home Systems among Older People in Linyi City

  • Yuan Wang,
  • Norazmawati Md. Sani,
  • Bo Shu,
  • Qianling Jiang and
  • Honglei Lu

2 October 2024

Background: With an aging population and the continuous advancement of smart technology, the Chinese government is exploring smart elderly care models to address the challenges posed by aging. Although smart home systems are viewed as a promising sol...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,001 Views
27 Pages

20 May 2025

This study investigates the influence of digital skills, personal innovativeness, and attitudes toward smart home adoption on digital consumer behavior in Poland, as well as the relationship between digital activity and environmental awareness. In th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6,163 Views
30 Pages

27 March 2025

Smart home technologies (SHT) offer numerous benefits to consumers. This study explored the relationship between the perceived benefits of and the likelihood of subsequently purchasing SHT among Taiwanese consumers. The study conducted a survey in Ma...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
4,829 Views
21 Pages

ComfOnt: A Semantic Framework for Indoor Comfort and Energy Saving In Smart Homes

  • Daniele Spoladore,
  • Atieh Mahroo,
  • Alberto Trombetta and
  • Marco Sacco

1 December 2019

This work introduces ComfOnt, a semantic framework developed within the context of ambient assisted living, context awareness, and ambient intelligence Italian research projects. ComfOnt leverages knowledge regarding Smart Home inhabitants and their...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
5 Citations
8,731 Views
22 Pages

Smart Homes: A Meta-Study on Sense of Security and Home Automation

  • Carlos M. Torres-Hernandez,
  • Mariano Garduño-Aparicio and
  • Juvenal Rodriguez-Resendiz

This review examines advancements in smart home security through the integration of home automation technologies. Various security systems, including surveillance cameras, smart locks, and motion sensors, are analyzed, highlighting their effectivenes...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
40 Citations
23,756 Views
49 Pages

26 June 2024

This study undertakes a systematic literature review, framed by eight research questions, and an exploration into the state-of-the-art concerning smart home innovations for care of older adults, ethical, security, and privacy considerations in smart...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,889 Views
31 Pages

The increasing adoption of smart home devices has raised significant concerns regarding privacy, security, and vulnerability to cyber threats. This study addresses these challenges by presenting a federated learning framework enhanced with blockchain...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,036 Views
25 Pages

29 September 2023

The latest technologies and communication protocols are arousing a keen interest in automation, in which the field of home area networks is the most prominent area to work upon toward solving the issues and challenges faced by wireless home area netw...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
6,980 Views
21 Pages

10 September 2018

Energy management systems in residential areas have attracted the attention of many researchers along the deployment of smart grids, smart cities, and smart homes. This paper presents the implementation of a Home Energy Management System (HEMS) based...

  • Review
  • Open Access
11 Citations
17,034 Views
44 Pages

This comprehensive state-of-the-art literature review investigates the status of the electric vehicle (EV) market share and the key factors that affect EV adoption with a focus on the shared vision of vehicle electrification and the smart city moveme...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,906 Views
17 Pages

7 October 2024

The era of digitization and IoT devices is marked by the constant storage of massive amounts of data. The growing adoption of smart home environments, which use sensors and devices to monitor and control various aspects of daily life, underscores the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
6,022 Views
30 Pages

Researches in the field of ambient assisted living (AAL) have increased in the last ten years, and the paradigms of the smart home have widely spread. Smart homes must consider the health-related issues and the real needs deriving from the ageing of...

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