Development of Smart Homes in Malaysia

Tan, Wei Lea (2023) Development of Smart Homes in Malaysia. Final Year Project (Bachelor), Tunku Abdul Rahman University College.

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Abstract

As a result of the impact brought by the changes in technologies, the demands and needs of human for living conditions have started to change and increase. Since building is one of the essential infrastructures provide support to the daily life of human society, the safe and efficient management and operation of buildings is a pivotal problem. However, this problem has caused an increase in the usage and need for the energy by the occupants in the worldwide. A significant resource is spent by the building as it marks for almost 50% of the overall environmental pollution, hence the improvement in changes should be carried out. Smart homes are an essential contributor to the future low-carbon economy as the smart homes application and information systems would be nicely collaborated and implemented. Smart homes contain interconnected devices and intelligent control systems that transcend the traditional building function and structure. Although the smart home has been introduced long time ago, the concept is still considered fresh and new in Malaysia and seldom implemented by construction industry. Therefore, the purpose of this research to investigate the development of smart homes in Malaysia. Survey and literature review are conducted to meet the objectives. The questionnaire were distributed to the specific population and a total of 102 responses received from combination of physical and online survey. Inferential analysis and descriptive analysis were applied to analyse the collected information. The outcomes portrays a high level of agreement on the smart homes. However, there is some limitations of this research which include the collected responses are unable to represent whole population and limited responses. Thus, future studies must take into consideration to the improvement on the sample size and effective time management when carrying out the survey