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A study on the factors that affect the adoption of Smart Water Grid

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Due to recent climate changes that accompany drastic changes in water recycle process, extreme floods and droughts are occurring frequently throughout the world. In response to these events, Smart Water Management that refers to implement intelligent water information systems by IT convergence is considered as a new paradigm. In this study, we seek to explore the Smart Water Management, especially the adoption of Smart Water Grid Technology. We aim to review previous studies to identify factors that influence the adoption of the Smart Water Grid and to analyze the importance and priority of the factors affecting Smart Water Grid adoption, thereby presenting the successful adoption measures for Smart Water Grid in Korea. This study set a research model with the influencing factors in relation to the adoption of new IT technologies that were identified through the literature reviews of previous studies based on the TOE framework. This study also conducted empirical analysis of the findings and found out that the issue of privacy protection and security due to hacker’s attack would be emerged as a significant risk factor.

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This research was supported by a grant (12-TI-C01) from Advanced Water Management Research Program funded by Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport of Korean government.

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  1. K-water Research Institute, Chungnam National University, Taejon, South Korea

    Dong-hwan Kim

  2. School of Management, Chungnam National University, Taejon, South Korea

    Kyung-hye Park

  3. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Incheon National University, Inchon, South Korea

    Gye-woon Choi

  4. K-water Research Institute, Taejon, South Korea

    Kyung-jin Min

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This paper is a contribution to the special issue on Mobile Communication Systems selected topic from the SDPM and it is coordinated by Sangyeob Oh, K. Chung, Supratip Ghose.

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Kim, Dh., Park, Kh., Choi, Gw. et al. A study on the factors that affect the adoption of Smart Water Grid. J Comput Virol Hack Tech 10, 119–128 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11416-014-0206-y

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