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% the tick is no change
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 India 3.7k works
- 2 China 1.1k works
- 3 Indonesia 982 works
- 4 United States 454 works
- 5 ?? 337 works
- 6 Malaysia 308 works
- 7 Iraq 200 works
- 8 Nigeria 180 works
- 9 Bangladesh 170 works
- 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.
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 Saveetha UniversityIndia 117 works
- 2 SRM Institute of Science and TechnologyIndia 117 works
- 3 Vellore Institute of Technology UniversityIndia 113 works
- 4 Amrita Vishwa VidyapeethamIndia 74 works
- 5 Chandigarh UniversityIndia 74 works
- 6 Sathyabama Institute of Science and TechnologyIndia 56 works
- 7 Siddhartha Medical CollegeIndia 52 works
- 8 Vel Tech Rangarajan Dr. Sagunthala R&D Institute of Science and TechnologyIndia 50 works
- 9 KPR Institute of Engineering and TechnologyIndia 50 works
- 10 Institute of EngineeringNepal 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 Luca Benini Italy 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
Where it is the local speciality
- Coimbatore40.5 works48×
Location quotient: how much more of its research is in IoT-based Smart Home Systems than the world average.
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.
One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.
| # | University | Score | Top 10% | Specialisation | Works | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saveetha UniversityIndia | 72.8 | 9.9% | 12.4× | 117 | +442.9% |
| 2 | Vellore Institute of Technology UniversityIndia | 71.6 | 10.8% | 11.7× | 113 | +885.5% |
| 3 | SRM Institute of Science and TechnologyIndia | 71.2 | 10.1% | 14.2× | 116 | +4131.2% |
| 4 | Amrita Vishwa VidyapeethamIndia | 69.9 | 12.5% | 14.3× | 74 | +308.2% |
| 5 | Vel Tech Rangarajan Dr. Sagunthala R&D Institute of Science and TechnologyIndia | 65.2 | 9.2% | 22.3× | 50 | +1265.4% |
| 6 | Koneru Lakshmaiah Education FoundationIndia | 65.0 | 10.2% | 16.3× | 45 | +1761.5% |
| 7 | Institute of EngineeringNepal | 64.1 | 3.1% | 25.9× | 49 | +515.0% |
| 8 | Sri Eshwar College of Engineering?? | 63.1 | 15.3% | 50.6× | 31 | +161.1% |
| 9 | Sathyabama Institute of Science and TechnologyIndia | 62.9 | 6.6% | 27.1× | 56 | +871.3% |
| 10 | Raisoni Group of InstitutionsIndia | 62.0 | 13.5% | 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.
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.