Optimising secure and sustainable smart home configurations

Abstract

As the adoption of smart devices accelerates rapidly in smart homes worldwide, the variety of available devices on the market is also diversifying. This creates a challenge for users, who must choose devices that best meet their needs, and for system designers, who must ensure these devices integrate efficiently within a connected ecosystem.

In response to this challenge, the solution presented in this work provides a metamodel that gathers the smart home features, including attributes related to security, usability, connectivity and sustainability. These features are used to create personalised configurations of smart homes that meet user requirements. This is achieved through the creation of multi-objective optimisation problems focused on improving: security, to ensure network and personal data protection; usability, to facilitate the easy management of the environment; connectivity, to maintain seamless interaction between both existing and future devices; and sustainability, which assesses the environmental impact and energy efficiency of the technological ecosystem. The implementation of the proposal is available and a set of experiments have been developed to evaluate the proposal’s applicability using real devices, being reproducible and replicable.