Analysis of IoT-based Smart Home Applications

Smart homes, which integrate Internet of Things devices by embedding intelligence into sensors and actuators, data, and services, have grown in popularity over the last decade. This paper aims at examining the advantages and applications of IoT-based Smart Home technologies and took a glance of its future prospects. Based on the data and experiments conducted in recent studies, this paper concluded that IoT could connect home with detecting devices and thus improve the home security and energy efficiency in households. The applications of IoT ease the inconveniences faced by the elderly and the disabled in their lives. This paper is optimistic about the future development of smart home, for it would better assist people's lives with better connectivity.