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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. 8.6% 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
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.7k
per year above
Top-10% rate
8.6%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
+77%
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Which countries lead IoT-based Smart Home Systems research?

By volume, India and China publish the most (3.7k and 1.1k works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 India 3.7k works
  2. 2 China 1.1k works
  3. 3 Indonesia 982 works
  4. 4 United States 454 works
  5. 5 ?? 337 works
  6. 6 Malaysia 308 works
  7. 7 Iraq 200 works
  8. 8 Nigeria 180 works
  9. 9 Bangladesh 170 works
  10. 10 Türkiye 128 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.

India: 49.0%China: 14.8%Indonesia: 12.9%United States: 5.9%6 others listed: 17.3%49%largest
India3,743 · 49.0%China1,132 · 14.8%Indonesia982 · 12.9%United States454 · 5.9%6 others listed1,324 · 17.3%

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

Which institutions lead IoT-based Smart Home Systems research?

By volume in 2022–2025, Saveetha University publishes the most IoT-based Smart Home Systems research, followed by SRM Institute of Science and Technology and Vellore Institute of Technology University.

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Saveetha University India 117 works
  2. 2 SRM Institute of Science and Technology India 117 works
  3. 3 Vellore Institute of Technology University India 113 works
  4. 4 Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham India 74 works
  5. 5 Chandigarh University India 74 works
  6. 6 Sathyabama Institute of Science and Technology India 56 works
  7. 7 Siddhartha Medical College India 52 works
  8. 8 Vel Tech Rangarajan Dr. Sagunthala R&D Institute of Science and Technology India 50 works
  9. 9 KPR Institute of Engineering and Technology India 50 works
  10. 10 Institute of Engineering Nepal 49 works

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

The most-cited researchers publishing on IoT-based Smart Home Systems include Luca Benini.

  1. 1 Luca Benini 4.6k citations

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

Where is IoT-based Smart Home Systems research done?

The largest centres of IoT-based Smart Home Systems research in 2022–2025 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.

Largest cities, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Chennai India 521 works
  2. 2 Coimbatore India 254 works
  3. 3 Bengaluru India 244 works
  4. 4 Pune India 212 works
  5. 5 Hyderabad India 154 works
  6. 6 Beijing China 148 works
  7. 7 Bandung Indonesia 123 works
  8. 8 Jakarta Indonesia 122 works
  9. 9 Vellore India 119 works
  10. 10 Dhaka Bangladesh 114 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Coimbatore40.5 works48×
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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, Vellore Institute of Technology 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.

0%10%20%mean 10.12%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →Saveetha University: 117, 9.9%Vellore Institute of Technology University: 113, 10.8%SRM Institute of Science and Technology: 116, 10.1%Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham: 74, 12.5%Vel Tech Rangarajan Dr. Sagunthala R&D Institute of Science and Technology: 50, 9.2%Koneru Lakshmaiah Education Foundation: 45, 10.2%Institute of Engineering: 49, 3.1%Sri Eshwar College of Engineering: 31, 15.3%Sathyabama Institute of Science and Technology: 56, 6.6%Raisoni Group of Institutions: 33, 13.5%Amrita Vishwa Vidyap…Vellore Institute of…SRM Institute of Sci…Saveetha University
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One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Saveetha University India 72.89.9%12.4×117 +442.9%
2Vellore Institute of Technology University India 71.610.8%11.7×113 +885.5%
3SRM Institute of Science and Technology India 71.210.1%14.2×116 +4131.2%
4Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham India 69.912.5%14.3×74 +308.2%
5Vel Tech Rangarajan Dr. Sagunthala R&D Institute of Science and Technology India 65.29.2%22.3×50 +1265.4%
6Koneru Lakshmaiah Education Foundation India 65.010.2%16.3×45 +1761.5%
7Institute of Engineering Nepal 64.13.1%25.9×49 +515.0%
8Sri Eshwar College of Engineering ?? 63.115.3%50.6×31 +161.1%
9Sathyabama Institute of Science and Technology India 62.96.6%27.1×56 +871.3%
10Raisoni Group of Institutions India 62.013.5%37.7×33 +177.8%

Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.

Is IoT-based Smart Home Systems research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 77% higher than in 2013–2017, 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.

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.