Pilot 2 - Ambient Intelligence for Smart Buildings/Homes

This pilot demonstrates how the CUSTODES solution can be used to facilitate Conformity self-assessment of a composite ICT service/ICT product as described within the Regulation (EU) 2019/881 (The EU Cybersecurity Act).

Need for certification: Addressing the broader transformation of buildings in Europe is important to ensure better living conditions, higher quality, accessible, more affordable and sustainable housing. In the context of home automation, the deployment of new technologies and enhanced equipment can improve the quality of daily life, provide easy access to many functions remotely, or allow the use of natural interfaces, such as motion, gestures and voice, in order to control lighting, climate, door automation or appliances. From a security perspective, the deployment of IoT devices and services in a smart home/building environment raises a number of important issues like data privacy, user profiling, physical security etc., making the conformity self-assessment of these ICT products, services or processes a critical need.

Pilot Setup: In this pilot, CUSTODES will focus on providing the means and the implementation of conformity self-assessment of the Ambient Intelligence service. For this service, a number of IoT sensing and actuator devices and an IoT gateway/edge device are distributed inside a home environment to collect data which are then forwarded to an application that makes intelligent decisions/actions (e.g., increase the heat) in an individual or cooperative manner. The IoT Sensing and actuator devices have various physical sensors (temperature, presence, microphone etc.) while the IoT gateway/edge device acts as the connecting point of the overall system and is responsible for the collection and aggregation of data, also performing local data processing.

CUSTODES contribution: For this pilot the Target of Evaluation is the i2CAT Ambient Intelligence service. The overall system will be “broken down” into the key building blocks (more building blocks can be identified depending on the level of desired granulation) which will undergo conformity self-assessment with the aim of collecting the relevant evidence and producing the relevant statement of conformity.

Figure 4 Smart Buildings/Homes.

The key innovations of this pilot are to: a) derive a statement of conformity of composite ICT service/product based on conformity self-assessment, b) utilize existing information of the certification status of the building blocks to facilitate the composite conformity self-assessment, c) carry out a cybersecurity conformity self assessment involving AI.