Success of smart cities development with community’s acceptance of new technologies: Thailand perspective

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and the Internet of Things (IOT) had been propagating in numerous aspects of our social and economic interactions and have started to transform our lifestyle with integration into the implementation in Smart Cities projects throughout the world. Smart Cities are part of the Thailand 4.0 initiatives which started in 2016. Adoption of the new Technology by citizens is essential and mandatory for such Smart City projects. We researched the Technology Acceptance Model and further extended the same with additional aspects to study the factors affecting the real adoption of new technology on the mass scale as part of the Smart Cities implementation.