Platform Leadership
The information furnace: consolidated home control
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
Smart home – digitally engineered domestic life
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
Invisible Engines: How Software Platforms Drive Innovation and Transform Industries
Invisible Engines: How Software Platforms Drive Innovation and Transform Industries
Technology strategy and management: The evolution of platform thinking
Communications of the ACM - Amir Pnueli: Ahead of His Time
Providing advanced remote medical treatment services through pervasive environments
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
GeeAir: a universal multimodal remote control device for home appliances
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
Research Commentary---Digital Infrastructures: The Missing IS Research Agenda
Information Systems Research
Establishing a common service platform for smart living: challenges and a research agenda
ICOST'11 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Toward useful services for elderly and people with disabilities: smart homes and health telematics
ICT platforms and regulatory concerns in Europe
Telecommunications Policy
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
PowerPedia: changing energy usage with the help of a community-based smartphone application
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
Mental health and the impact of ubiquitous technologies
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
A mobile data collection platform for mental health research
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
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Emerging technologies like sensors, mobile devices and internet-of-things enable a new range of smart home services that go beyond simple home automation. The service platforms, on which these services run, are highly disparate based on different technological as well as organizational architectures. In this paper, the authors adopt a platform perspective to classify 42 major currently offered smart living service platforms. The authors analyze the platforms along two dimensions: where the intelligence of the platform is located in the technological architecture i.e. at user's premise, in the cloud, on the network or in between and openness of the platform toward third party service providers which has implications on potential network effects. The authors found that most platforms are located in the user's home and are kept closed for third party service providers, while only a few cloud-centric, open platforms exists in the market. The authors argue that smart living provides an interesting avenue for studying platform concepts given the diversity of the organizational and technological arrangements of smart living platforms and the conflicting views in literature as to how openness and technical architecture impact innovativeness and viability.