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DOI	10.1016/j.enpol.2020.111631
	Critically reviewing smart home technology applications and business models in Europe
	Furszyfer Del Rio D.D.; Sovacool B.K.; Bergman N.; Makuch K.E.
发表日期	2020
ISSN	03014215
卷号	144
英文摘要	Smart home technologies refer to devices that provide some degree of digitally connected or enhanced services to occupants. Smart homes have become central in recent technology and policy discussions about energy efficiency, climate change, and innovation. However, many studies are speculative, lacking empirical data, and focus on costs and benefits, but not business models and emerging markets. To address these gaps, our study presents data from semi-structured expert interviews and a review of the recent literature. Although we draw from empirical data collected in the United Kingdom, we place our findings in the context of Europe because the UK has access to European markets for smart home technologies and platforms. Our sampling strategy included experts from Amazon, Microsoft, the International Energy Agency, government, academic, and civil society stakeholders. We identify a diversity of definitions associated with smart home technologies and draw from our data to discuss applications centred on digital connections, enhanced control, automation, and learning. We analyse fifteen distinct business models for smart home technologies, ranging from energy services and household data monitoring to assisted living, security and safety, and new advertising channels (among others). Our assessment ought to guide future innovation patterns, technology deployment, and policy activity relating to smart homes, especially insofar as they can deliver energy services more affordably or help meeting carbon mitigation priorities. © 2020 Elsevier Ltd
关键词	Decarbonisation Smart energy Smart home technologies ‘Prosumers’
英文关键词	Automation; Climate change; Commerce; Energy efficiency; Carbon mitigation; Costs and benefits; Future innovations; International energy agency; Policy discussion; Sampling strategies; Smart Home Technology; Technology deployment; Intelligent buildings; business; climate change; energy efficiency; innovation; Internet; United Kingdom
语种	英语
来源期刊	Energy Policy
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/204661
作者单位	Centre for Environmental Policy, Imperial College London, United Kingdom; Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU), University of Sussex Business School, United Kingdom; Centre for Energy Technologies, Department of Business Development and Technology, Aarhus University, Denmark; Khalifa University of Science and Technology, United Arab Emirates
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Furszyfer Del Rio D.D.,Sovacool B.K.,Bergman N.,et al. Critically reviewing smart home technology applications and business models in Europe[J],2020,144.
APA	Furszyfer Del Rio D.D.,Sovacool B.K.,Bergman N.,&Makuch K.E..(2020).Critically reviewing smart home technology applications and business models in Europe.Energy Policy,144.
MLA	Furszyfer Del Rio D.D.,et al."Critically reviewing smart home technology applications and business models in Europe".Energy Policy 144(2020).