A Survey of Adopting Smart Home Healthcare via IoT Technology

With recent advances in internet technologies, Internet of Things (IoT) considered as one of the new emerging technologies, as well as it is a good opportunity to investee, where it expected to reach in 2021 more than three thousand billion dollars. Most of the literature focused on the technical aspects of the IoT services, as well as the benefits sides, while few studies interested on the behavioral studies that illustrate the patients’ perspective about the adoption IoT and use it for home healthcare purposes. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the factors that might have influence on the adoption of IoT at homes for healthcare purposes. Consequently, it has been developed, and tested a conceptual framework of factors determining patients’ acceptance of IoT technology at homes, to demonstrate whether there is a relationship between some factors, and the propensity of patients towards the adoption of IoT. The framework of this paper has been built based on the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT), and Technology Readiness Theory (TRT). supplemented by a critical review of related articles. The outcome of this paper is a conceptual framework that links the performance, and effort expectancy in UTAUT with other factors such as security and privacy in TRT for the IoT services.