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There are many benefits that smart home technology can bring to the modern household however, smart home tech-nology is yet in early development and has struggled to adopt among consumers. Some of the challenges that smart home technology faces are privacy & security, trust, reliabil-ity & pricing. However, many literature has dealt with the gap between smart homeowner needs and the functionality smart devices offers to the smart homeowner. A number of models and framework has been adopted to explain smart home technology readiness. This paper endeavours to review Internet of Things Smart Homes in general, challenges and open issues, and countermeasures. The main challenges and open issues identified in this paper are privacy & security, interoperability, costs, energy efficiency, trust, perceived usefulness, effort expectancy, performance expectancy/connectivity standards, installation, administration and maintenance smart home technology faces within these two models. Solutions to these challenges that are being proposed or implemented are also discussed. Although Internet Of Things smart home is a fast-growing technology but has a number of challenges and these have made it not to grow as expected.
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Julies, B.D., Zuva, T. (2020). A Review on Intenet of Things Smart Homes, Challenges, Open Issues and Countermeasures. In: Silhavy, R., Silhavy, P., Prokopova, Z. (eds) Software Engineering Perspectives in Intelligent Systems. CoMeSySo 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1294. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63322-6_93
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