Editing Home automation (section)

== Impact ==
Utilizing home automation could lead to more efficient and intelligent energy-saving techniques.<ref name=":3">{{Cite journal|last1=Risteska Stojkoska|first1=Biljana L.|last2=Trivodaliev|first2=Kire V.|date=January 2017|title=A review of Internet of Things for smart home: Challenges and solutions|url=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S095965261631589X|journal=Journal of Cleaner Production|language=en|volume=140|pages=1454–1464|doi=10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.10.006|bibcode=2017JCPro.140.1454R |s2cid=53696817 }}</ref> By integrating information and communication technologies (ICT) with renewable energy systems such as solar power or wind power, homes can autonomously make decisions about whether to store energy or expend it for a given appliance,<ref name=":3" /> leading to overall positive environmental impacts and lower electricity bills for the consumers using the system. To do this, researchers propose using data from sensors regarding consumer activity within the home to anticipate consumer needs and balance that with energy consumption.<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Heierman|first1=E.O.|last2=Cook|first2=D.J.|title=Third IEEE International Conference on Data Mining |chapter=Improving home automation by discovering regularly occurring device usage patterns |date=2003|chapter-url=https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1250971|location=Melbourne, FL, USA|publisher=IEEE Comput. Soc|pages=537–540|doi=10.1109/ICDM.2003.1250971|isbn=978-0-7695-1978-4|s2cid=10329347 }}</ref>

Furthermore, home automation has a large potential regarding family safety and security. According to a 2015 survey done by iControl, the primary drivers of the demand for smart and connected devices are first "personal and family security", and second "excitement about energy savings".<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Kaaz|first1=Kim J.|last2=Hoffer|first2=Alex|last3=Saeidi|first3=Mahsa|last4=Sarma|first4=Anita|last5=Bobba|first5=Rakesh B.|title=2017 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC) |chapter=Understanding user perceptions of privacy, and configuration challenges in home automation |date=October 2017|chapter-url=https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8103482|location=Raleigh, NC|publisher=IEEE|pages=297–301|doi=10.1109/VLHCC.2017.8103482|isbn=978-1-5386-0443-4|s2cid=36313196 }}</ref> Home automation includes a variety of smart security systems and surveillance setups. This allows consumers to monitor their homes while away, and to give trusted family members access to that information in case anything bad happens.

While there are many competing vendors, there are increasing efforts towards [[open source]] systems. However, there are issues with the current state of home automation including a lack of standardized security measures and deprecation of older devices without backwards compatibility.

Home automation has high potential for sharing data between family members or trusted individuals for personal security purposes and could lead to energy saving measures with a positive environmental impact in the future.

The home automation market was worth US$64 billion in 2022 and is projected to grow to over $163 billion in 2028.{{cn|date=December 2022}}