Topic · Electrical and Electronic Engineering

IoT-based Smart Home Systems

IoT-based Smart Home Systems is a research topic within Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Science Explorer counts 32k research works in it since 1950. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on wireless home automation systems, including IoT-based smart home monitoring and control, sensor networks, Bluetooth and ZigBee technologies, security applications, and integration with devices like Raspberry Pi. The research covers a wide range of topics related to improving efficiency, security, and convenience in home automation.

Wireless
Home Automation
IoT
Smart Home
Sensors
Bluetooth
Raspberry Pi
Security
ZigBee
Internet of Things

Research works: 32k
In the world top 10%: 3.2k
Top-10% rate: 10.0%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25: +23%
Largest producer: India

IoT-based Smart Home Systems

Which countries lead IoT-based Smart Home Systems research?

By volume, India and China publish the most (4k and 1.2k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

1 India 4k works
2 China 1.2k works
3 Indonesia 1k works
4 United States 491 works
5 ?? 350 works
6 Malaysia 313 works
7 Iraq 204 works
8 Nigeria 193 works
9 Bangladesh 174 works
10 Philippines 133 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

India3,977 · 49.5%China1,194 · 14.9%Indonesia1,006 · 12.5%United States491 · 6.1%6 others listed1,368 · 17.0%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead IoT-based Smart Home Systems research?

By volume in 2022-now, SRM Institute of Science and Technology publishes the most IoT-based Smart Home Systems research, followed by Saveetha University and Vellore Institute of Technology University.

By volume, 2022-now

1 SRM Institute of Science and TechnologyIndia 133 works
2 Saveetha UniversityIndia 119 works
3 Vellore Institute of Technology UniversityIndia 118 works
4 Savitribai Phule Pune UniversityIndia 94 works
5 Amrita Vishwa VidyapeethamIndia 79 works
6 Chandigarh UniversityIndia 75 works
7 Tribhuvan UniversityNepal 72 works
8 Sathyabama Institute of Science and TechnologyIndia 61 works
9 Vel Tech Rangarajan Dr. Sagunthala R&D Institute of Science and TechnologyIndia 54 works
10 Siddhartha Medical CollegeIndia 53 works

Who are the leading researchers in IoT-based Smart Home Systems?

The most-cited researchers publishing on IoT-based Smart Home Systems include Li Fei-Fei, Kai You Wang and Frede Blaabjerg.

1 Li Fei-Fei United States 225k citations
2 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
3 Frede Blaabjerg Denmark 203k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in IoT-based Smart Home Systems?

The most cited paper in IoT-based Smart Home Systems is "Internet of Things in Industries: A Survey" (Li Da Xu, Wu He, Shancang Li, 2014), with 5,190 citations. Next come "Object Tracking Benchmark" (3,506) and "Robust Object Tracking with Online Multiple Instance Learning" (2,039).

Most cited papers
#	Paper	Released	Citations
1	Internet of Things in Industries: A Survey Li Da Xu, Wu He, Shancang Li · IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics	31 Jan 2014	5,190
2	Object Tracking Benchmark Yi Wu, Jongwoo Lim, Ming–Hsuan Yang · IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence	2015	3,506
3	Robust Object Tracking with Online Multiple Instance Learning Boris Babenko, Shuicheng Yan, Serge Belongie · IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence	23 Dec 2010	2,039
4	Energy Harvesting Sensor Nodes: Survey and Implications Sujesha Sudevalayam, Purushottam Kulkarni · IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials	3 Aug 2010	2,015
5	YOLOv8: A Novel Object Detection Algorithm with Enhanced Performance and Robustness Rejin Varghese, M. Sambath Conference paper	18 Apr 2024	1,846

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Where is IoT-based Smart Home Systems research done?

The largest centres of IoT-based Smart Home Systems research in 2022-now are Chennai (India), Coimbatore (India), Bengaluru (India) and Pune (India). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Coimbatore and Srivilliputhur.

Largest cities, 2022-now

1 ChennaiIndia 548 works
2 CoimbatoreIndia 267 works
3 BengaluruIndia 255 works
4 PuneIndia 230 works
5 HyderabadIndia 164 works
6 BeijingChina 153 works
7 BandungIndonesia 125 works
8 VelloreIndia 124 works
9 JakartaIndonesia 124 works
10 DhakaBangladesh 118 works

Where it is the local speciality

Coimbatore42.8 works50×
SrivilliputhurIN · 42.3 works27×

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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in IoT-based Smart Home Systems than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study IoT-based Smart Home Systems?

Among universities, judged by research, Saveetha University, King Saud University and SRM Institute of Science and Technology score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged

40%

Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share

10%

Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale

30%

Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%

10%

Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad

10%

Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.

#	University	Score	Top 10%	Specialisation	Works	Growth
1	Saveetha UniversityIndia	66.5	13.0%	13.8×	119	+370.2%
2	King Saud UniversitySaudi Arabia	64.1	41.0%	1.0×	9	+87.0%
3	SRM Institute of Science and TechnologyIndia	60.7	9.3%	14.4×	133	+15.7%
4	University of BabylonIraq	59.7	27.9%	7.6×	18	+119.7%
5	Vellore Institute of Technology UniversityIndia	58.6	10.7%	13.3×	118	+0.1%
6	Amrita Vishwa VidyapeethamIndia	58.1	15.4%	16.4×	79	-1.8%
7	Chandigarh UniversityIndia	57.6	10.4%	15.2×	75	+447.9%
8	Vel Tech Rangarajan Dr. Sagunthala R&D Institute of Science and TechnologyIndia	55.3	11.4%	26.0×	54	+108.4%
9	Savitribai Phule Pune UniversityIndia	53.7	5.2%	25.3×	94	+16.4%
10	Graphic Era UniversityIndia	53.5	12.2%	12.8×	40	+155.4%
11	Raisoni Group of InstitutionsIndia	53.2	15.0%	41.4×	33	+146.8%
12	Tribhuvan UniversityNepal	52.9	5.8%	10.4×	72	+16.0%
13	Iraqi UniversityIraq	52.7	14.2%	12.6×	19	+442.2%
14	Kalasalingam Academy of Research and EducationIndia	51.3	9.0%	30.1×	42	+48.4%
15	Karpagam Academy of Higher EducationIndia	51.0	8.8%	25.9×	39	+177.4%
16	KPR Institute of Engineering and TechnologyIndia	50.6	5.8%	52.7×	53	+213.0%
17	Sri Eshwar College of Engineering	50.3	13.3%	57.0×	33	+732.2%
18	Swami Vivekanand College of PharmacyIndia	50.2	16.8%	20.0×	17	+349.9%
19	Anna University, ChennaiIndia	49.9	10.5%	13.9×	32	+21.9%
20	Uttaranchal UniversityIndia	49.8	12.9%	22.3×	22	+726.9%
21	Siddhartha Medical CollegeIndia	49.6	7.2%	37.3×	53	+171.1%
22	Lovely Professional UniversityIndia	49.4	8.7%	8.8×	39	+47.4%
23	Independent University, BangladeshBangladesh	49.3	28.1%	20.3×	8	+37.4%
24	Hindustan Institute of Technology and ScienceIndia	48.9	12.7%	25.9×	33	+83.0%
25	American International University-BangladeshBangladesh	48.9	13.5%	48.0×	31	-2.8%
26	Karunya UniversityIndia	48.9	12.6%	23.1×	30	+113.0%
27	Galgotias UniversityIndia	48.1	10.2%	18.5×	39	+17.3%
28	Chitkara UniversityIndia	48.1	9.5%	8.4×	29	+154.6%
29	Symbiosis International UniversityIndia	47.7	9.6%	9.4×	28	+399.0%
30	Jain UniversityIndia	47.4	5.5%	19.4×	45	+156.8%
31	Mangalore UniversityIndia	46.9	15.2%	17.1×	19	+631.3%
32	St. Joseph's Institute of TechnologyIndia	46.3	10.5%	29.0×	23	+162.9%
33	Sathyabama Institute of Science and TechnologyIndia	46.2	8.0%	31.8×	61	-7.4%
34	Rajalakshmi Engineering College	46.2	14.7%	31.4×	21	+215.9%
35	Koneru Lakshmaiah Education FoundationIndia	45.9	11.2%	17.8×	45	-13.9%
36	Universiti Teknologi MARAMalaysia	45.0	3.2%	5.8×	40	+7.8%
37	Manipal Academy of Higher EducationIndia	44.8	10.0%	4.6×	30	+27.5%
38	National Institute of Technology KarnatakaIndia	44.1	16.1%	7.4×	12	+29.2%
39	Chaitanya Bharathi Institute of TechnologyIndia	43.5	7.6%	28.1×	23	+135.3%
40	Dr. Hari Singh Gour UniversityIndia	43.4	3.8%	22.1×	36	+100.6%
41	Tsinghua UniversityChina	41.2	26.8%	0.5×	11	+58.3%
42	Indian Institute of Technology MadrasIndia	39.6	18.9%	2.2×	9	+190.8%
43	ASA CollegeUnited States	39.3	0.7%	26.5×	21	+116.1%
44	Amity UniversityIndia	38.6	11.6%	5.8×	22	-61.4%
45	Islamic Azad University, TehranIran	38.1	28.6%	0.9×	14	-52.1%
46	University of Kuala LumpurMalaysia	37.4	2.1%	19.9×	18	+34.3%
47	University of Technology MalaysiaMalaysia	36.2	8.0%	4.6×	20	-11.3%
48	GLA UniversityIndia	35.8	19.6%	5.4×	9	-17.8%
49	National Institute of Technology WarangalIndia	35.0	15.1%	5.2×	10	-53.1%
50	Tun Hussein Onn University of MalaysiaMalaysia	33.1	2.8%	13.6×	22	-43.7%
51	Motilal Nehru National Institute of TechnologyIndia	32.4	17.3%	6.6×	10	-21.0%
52	Universiti Malaysia PerlisMalaysia	31.6	9.1%	11.2×	15	-33.3%
53	Technical University of Malaysia MalaccaMalaysia	30.5	5.3%	15.4×	15	-41.8%
54	Universiti Sains MalaysiaMalaysia	21.6	4.0%	1.5×	9	-11.5%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in IoT-based Smart Home Systems, country by country

Is IoT-based Smart Home Systems research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 23% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are IoT-based Smart Home Systems.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is IoT-based Smart Home Systems as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.054% in 2024.

Fractional works of IoT-based Smart Home Systems over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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Which countries lead IoT-based Smart Home Systems research?

By volume, 2022-now

How concentrated that is

Which institutions lead IoT-based Smart Home Systems research?

By volume, 2022-now

Who are the leading researchers in IoT-based Smart Home Systems?

What are the most cited papers in IoT-based Smart Home Systems?

Where is IoT-based Smart Home Systems research done?

Largest cities, 2022-now

Where it is the local speciality

Where is the best place to study IoT-based Smart Home Systems?

Is IoT-based Smart Home Systems research growing?

Its share of all research

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Which topics inside it are moving

Related research

Discussion