Factors Influencing Stakeholders’ Willingness to Embrace Smart Home Technologies

The concept of smart homes has drawn global attention towards achieving smart cities for building sustainable cities in both developing and developed worlds. This emanated from the idea of making humans acclimate to the easy usage of building facilities for actualizing a sustainable environment. This study assesses the stakeholders’ characteristics, the level of their willingness to embrace smart home technologies, and possible factors influencing their willingness to embrace smart homes. A survey of professionals, investors, and users in Lagos Island, the economic nerves of Nigeria revealed that the degree of willingness to embrace smart homes was above average and factors influencing willingness to embrace smart home technologies are Technological, Environmental, Economical, and social, as the degree of each factor varies depending on the stakeholders’ characteristics. The study recommends the synergies among stakeholders to embrace smart home technologies and that governments at all levels should create a supportive framework to accommodate proper implementation for the advancement of sustainable cities in Nigeria.