Smart home technology and energy savings with a special focus on Europe

Abstract

With the rapid expansion of new technologies in all spheres of human life, technological devices have inevitably penetrated in people’s homes, where in most cases are targeted at facilitating people’s life in order to improve people’s quality of living. The purpose of this article is to address current issues with respect to smart home technology and energy savings, especially in European countries. The specification is based on the basis of available studies between 2010 and 2015. The authors used a method of literature review of available sources exploring research studies focused on smart home technology with respect to energy savings in the acknowledged databases Web of Science, Elsevier, Science Direct, and Springer. The findings show that the number of studies exploring the issue of smart home technology and energy savings is gradually rising since consumers are getting more aware of potential savings, respectively of waste of energy.