Adoption of smart home technologies features among the homeowners in Hulu Langat, Selangor. International Journal of Real Estate Studies, 12 (2): 2. pp. 9-20. ISSN 1832-8505 (2018)
Abstract
The smart home is an advent innovation that emergence the home automation and had a reflective influence on the built environment. Smart home development and adoption is still a new phenomenon and trend and also relatively limited in Malaysia. Smart home technologies become easier in monitoring home and control accessible for the homeowners from anywhere and anytime with connecting to the Internet of Things (IoT) principle. However, the homeowners are still unaware about the needs of smart home technologies in their life that is actually useful and helpful which is leading to smart home living and sustainable lifestyle. Therefore, the purpose of this is to identify the basic concept of smart home technologies and to study the needs of smart home technologies components that influences their decision to adopt them into their house. This is a quantitative study and involves a small survey among smart home users in Hulu Langat, Selangor. Descriptive statistics, Cross tabulation analysis were used to analyse the data by using the Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) software. Besides, the qualitative data that gathered from the respective respondents, then the data were transcribed into text for data analysis stage and the analysis was conducted by using content analysis. Key finding shows that the smart home technologies well received by the majority of the homeowners. From the study, it found that demographic profile of homeowners, technological orientation and individual perception are the key indicators that influencing the homeowners’ decisions to install the smart home technologies in their home.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Keywords: | Smart Home Technologies (SHT), Internet of Things (IoT), Adoption, Homeowners |
| Taxonomy: | By Subject > Architecture, Planning & Surveying > Architecture By Subject > Architecture, Planning & Surveying > Interior Architecture |
| Local Content Hub: | Subjects > Architecture, Planning & Surveying |
| Depositing User: | Shahidatul Akhmam Rambeli |
| Date Deposited: | 21 Aug 2020 09:38 |
| Last Modified: | 21 Aug 2020 09:38 |
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