Smart Home Environment - A Bibliometric Review

Review Article
Priti Puri and Yatin Jog
DOI: 
xxx-xxxxx-xxxx
Subject: 
science
KeyWords: 
Smart homes, automation, smart devices
Abstract: 

In today’s era of 21st century the world witnessing a tangential shift in technology and innovation in a short span of time. Various innovations in the area of computing, processing and analytics are happening today. However, today the buzzword “Smart homes and IoT” is most popular among the companies, universities, research scholars and so on. With the advent of emerging technologies and innovations like big data analytics, booming telecom sector, increasing broadband connectivity and improved processing capability of various devices and sensors, the idea of having a smart home which was looking impossible till the very recent time now seems to be feasible and possible. We have conducted Bibliometric review of the research papers and come up with few metrics to understand the research done in smart home environment. Based on this one could get clues on the area to be focused for further work. The analysis is with limitation that entire content of the research papers have not been analyzed. All the metrics are presented in graphical and tabular format.