Smart home technologies (SHTs) enable new ways of using and managing energy in the domestic sphere. This paper interrogates their contribution to the ambitious carbon emissions reduction efforts required under the 1.5°C mitigation pathway set by the Paris Agreement and their suitability for energy poverty alleviation goals. In contrast to aspirational claims for a ‘smart utopia’ of greener, less energy intensive, and more comfortable homes currently present in market and policy discourses, we argue that SHTs may reinforce unsustainable energy consumption patterns in the residential sector, are not easily accessible by vulnerable consumers, and do little to help the ‘energy poor’ secure adequate and affordable access to energy at home.

智能家居技术（SHT）提供了在家庭领域使用和管理能源的新方法。本文探讨了它们对《巴黎协定》所设定的1.5°C减排途径所要求的雄心勃勃的碳减排努力的贡献及其对实现能源贫困缓解目标的适用性。与市场和政策讨论中目前存在的绿色，能源消耗少，舒适的“智能乌托邦”的理想主张相反，我们认为SHT可能会加剧住宅部门中不可持续的能源消费方式，不容易被人们获得。易受伤害的消费者，几乎无济于事，帮助“能源匮乏者”获得充足且负担得起的家庭能源。