Smart home technology adoption: A study of Malaysian home owners

Despite many benefits of Smart home technology in improving people live, the technology has not been widely adopted. The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship of perceived benefits and perceived risk towards the intention to adopt smart home technology among home owners. A convenience sampling technique was used to select respondents among home owners in Selangor, Malaysia. This quantitative approach employ structured questionnaire developed from previous research. Out of 400 questionnaires distributed, only 316 questionnaires are usable for analysis. The Pearson Correlation and Multiple Regression analysis were conducted using the SPSS Version 23.0 to analyse the data. Overall, the findings revealed that perceived benefits has positive and significant relationship to intention to adopt Smart home technology. However, perceived risk has no significant relationship to intention to adopt smart home technology. The result present that home owners tend to ignore the potential risk and focus more on potential benefits of smart home technology. Future research should explore other dimensions of risk factors towards adopting smart home technology.