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Adeyeye, K (2024) From product to service – strategies for upscaling smart home performance monitoring. Building Research & Information, 52(01–02), 107–28.

  • Type: Journal Article
  • Keywords: Building performance monitoring; housing quality; home improvement; net-zero homes (NZH); product-as-service; smart home technologies;
  • ISBN/ISSN: 0961-3218
  • URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/09613218.2023.2225111
  • Abstract:
    Smart home technologies provide an opportunity to address the housing design or retrofit-performance gap and to improve the building regulations. It is currently used to manage comfort, security, and resource efficiency but, adoption remains piecemeal, and disparate. This study aims to explore how householder perceptions of housing quality, and the cost–benefit of improvements informs the adoption of smart technologies. Further, it bridges the theory-to-practice gap by proposing the product-as-service domains that can be deployed for the upscaled implementation of smart home performance monitoring. The survey method returned 972 nationally representative responses. Factor analysis was then used to establish the housing quality priorities, and home improvement drivers that combine to inform the adoption of smart home performance monitoring. Findings show that householders will adopt technologies in return for a ‘benefit’ if reliable smart systems and data-feedback mechanisms are packaged as: (a) commerce services to support utility efficiencies and cost savings, (b) convenience and control services to improve comfort and wellbeing, (c) information and communication services to inform behaviours and decisions, and (d) entertainment services to satisfy hedonic needs. The paper concludes with practical, scalable implementation strategies for smart home performance monitoring. Thus bridging the gap between theory and practice.

Al-Aomar, R, AlTal, M and Abel, J (2024) A data-driven predictive maintenance model for hospital HVAC system with machine learning. Building Research & Information, 52(01–02), 207–24.

Božiček, D, Almezeraani, Y and Košir, M (2024) Making sense of LCA results when evaluating multiple building designs – comparison of interpretation concepts. Building Research & Information, 52(01–02), 129–47.

Calcerano, F, Thravalou, S, Martinelli, L, Alexandrou, K, Artopoulos, G and Gigliarelli, E (2024) Energy and environmental improvement of built heritage: HBIM simulation-based approach applied to nine Mediterranean case-studies. Building Research & Information, 52(01–02), 225–47.

Ghansah, F A, Owusu-Manu, D, Edwards, D J, Thwala, W D, Yamoah Agyemang, D and Ababio, B K (2024) A framework for smart building technologies implementation in the Ghanaian construction industry: a PLS-SEM approach. Building Research & Information, 52(01–02), 148–63.

Kalla, M, Kalaycioglu, O, Hecht, R, Schneider, S and Schmidt, C (2024) Station biophilia – assessing the perception of greenery on railway platforms using a digital twin. Building Research & Information, 52(01–02), 164–80.

Kumari, P, Reddy, S R N and Yadav, R (2024) Indoor occupancy detection and counting system based on boosting algorithm using different sensor data. Building Research & Information, 52(01–02), 87–106.

Lai, H and Chiang, W (2024) Generative design of terraced concert hall – a case study of Taipei music and library centre. Building Research & Information, 52(01–02), 49–67.

Liang, H, Weng, Y, Tang, S W Y and Yeoh, J K W (2024) Automated filtering of façade defect images using a similarity method for enhanced inspection documentation. Building Research & Information, 52(01–02), 194–206.

Prieto, A J, Torres-González, M and Carpio, M (2024) Virtual web-based instruments in the evaluation of functional degradation of heritage timber buildings. Building Research & Information, 52(01–02), 181–93.

Saeidlou, S and Ghadiminia, N (2024) A construction cost estimation framework using DNN and validation unit. Building Research & Information, 52(01–02), 38–48.

Yıldız, B, Çağdaş, G and Zincir, I (2024) Architectural space classification considering topological and 3D visual spatial relations using machine learning techniques. Building Research & Information, 52(01–02), 68–86.

Yang, X, Zhong, H, Wang, Z, Du, P, Zhou, K, Zhou, H, Lai, X, Lau, Y L, Song, Y and Tang, L (2024) BEKG: A built environment knowledge graph. Building Research & Information, 52(01–02), 19–37.

Zhou, S ( (2024) Platforming for industrialized building: a comparative case study of digitally-enabled product platforms. Building Research & Information, 52(01–02), 4–18.