Good posts here. “Smart Posts”.

Let’s look at the history of smart homes. The first ‘smart homes’ were in trees. They kept predators from eating you. Gathering up branches, leaves, whatever and making some sort of smart ‘tree house’ was revolutionary. We probably learned it from birds and their nests.

Then we hopped down and lived wherever. If caves were around we lived in caves. It was smart to have a fire going outside a cave to keep us warm and predators away. This was the first ‘smart home’ on the ground, with security features.

This and that happened, tens of thousands of years went by – and we began to fashion houses out of whatever made sense and was available. The first ‘smart homes’ built from scratch.

Soon these homes had doors and windows, making them true ‘smart homes’.  Someone came up with the greatest of smart home devices: the fireplace/chimney combo.

Before long we harnessed electricity and created power and light. These new ‘smart homes’ had electric appliances! Revolutionary.

It is presumptuous to think all this computer-based technology for homes is revolutionary. All of a sudden calling them ‘smart homes’ is pure arrogance. They do little diddly things. Often, they make things complex, not easier. “Alexa, turn on the light in the living room,” is much more complicated, time-consuming, and energy depleting than flipping a switch.

Do you wonder why most people aren’t jumping all over ‘smart homes’? Here’s why:

Smart homes of today are fine. They’re fun. If you’re disabled in some way, they can be lifesavers. But to call anything they do ‘smart’ or ‘revolutionary’ is preposterous. 

Indoor plumbing was revolutionary.

I have identified some barriers. Technology must be reliable, concerns could include cost and privacy, lack of standardization. A basic question, that could be the main one, where to start? The market is still immature as well as users experience

Smart Home is such a nebulous concept that it is attracting a multitude of vendors from different markets: consumer electronics, security, energy, entertainment. The wide variety of use cases, products and services will have equally diverse set of barriers to adoption. A very long book would not answer this question!

I believe that adoption will come when the technology becomes mature. Right now we have a bunch of devices that ...require attention. It's not even security and reliability concerns but time required. Tech enthusiasts will do but not people in masses. When "smart home" becomes really "smart", i.e. capable to serve me without my time spent on programming of everything, I will use it.

I think it is an important question who the Smart Home get perceived by the people living there. How would be the interface to manage the house. Would it be the "Alexa"-smart speaker, "Siri" on the phone or the "Kirobo"-robot, developed by Toyota. The last has the advantage that it is not only a smart interface, but also a companion, so can psychologically support.

Besides that I think Smart Buildings first appear in offices. If employees get used to this technology, they will accept and request similar for their private homes.

The concept of "Home" has gone through changes though out centuries but the main criteria to define home is still the same: : The place where some one seek shelter or stay comfortably. In the 21st century, the perspective of comfort has change where more advance technology has become indispensable to human to live comfortably at home. So the process of unifying all the devices to 1 remote control namely a smart phone or i pad will simplify life whereby the concept of "smart home" surfaces. The main problem to adopt a smart home is to unify different platform and devices produced by different manufacturer and company which consist of different specification besides as what commented above where the market is still very new to most developing and newly industrialized countries.

The early adopters of Smart Home technology are currently putting up with a lot of growing pains in order to be at the forefront of new advances when they arrive. The loss of privacy and the lack of regulation surrounding access to private data is one drawback, The technology is not robust or mature yet (Alexa skills are 90% gimmick at this time, SmartThings crashes several every few months, the whole house lights up after power resumes following an outage, etc...). However, the potential benefits and the promise of what a smart house could be is what is enticing these customers. The smart home industry must be very careful not to alienate them further with privacy breeches, invasive advertising and gimmicks. Furthermore, robustness and reliability should be prioritized over expansion in some cases.

I think a few barriers are - 

Maturity and Standardization 
The smart home idea is doing great as technology but in isolation. 
The concept looks like a collection of multiple small tech devices which may or may not sync with each other. One vendor doesn't comply with another sometimes. 
There is no clear protocol or standard defined so far. However, this debate goes bigger since its IoT domain but still some form of management required here. 

Security
So, you monitor the home with all kind of private data and where do you store that? This is a big question. And how secure the servers are. The questions asked from day one what if Alexa and Google Home listens to everything that you say :). In any form- how secure my privacy is? 

Reliability, privacy, and inter-operability are the big ones!

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