Future Homes: Integration Element Of A Healthy Home And Smart System To Enhance Wellbeing For All

Abstract

According to the National Center for Healthy Housing (NCHH), a healthy home is housing that is designed, constructed, maintained, and rehabilitated in a manner that is conducive to good occupant health. Our housing and our health are at once inseparable and distinct. Together, they reflect two of our most basic needs for individual and collective identity, privacy, social progress and indeed survival itself. Nevertheless, the fact that improved housing means improved health in a general way has been accepted for well over a century. A collection of data analysed in this research is gained through literature review from other authors in the aspect of healthy home, technology, smart system, Internet of Things (IoT) and smart home technology in Malaysia. Secondary data, such as books, articles, journals, newspapers, web page, reports, thesis, and conference proceeding were also the sources of information of this paper. The review process involves of data selection, data analysis and reporting. Review process focuses on the data selection. The analysis attempts to review on presenting the existing knowledge related to the use of IoT for smart home in Malaysia context, current issues, problems faced amongst Malaysians on smart home technology integrating with elements of heathy housing. The objective of this research is to propose a basic guideline that applicable for Future Homes: Integration element of a Healthy Home with Smart System to enhance wellbeing for all.