Privacy Issues in Smart Buildings by examples in Smart Metering

Abstract

Main goals of building automation are to optimize costs and to reduce energy consumption. For these tasks, high amounts of data are collected, including data directly related to an individual inhabitant. Such data usage possibly infringes the privacy of a person, thus compromises on their collection and processing need to be found. In this paper, we enumerate possible solutions to privacy issues in the Smart Building domain. Tightly connected are privacy issues introduced by Smart Meters, currently being rolled out in many member states of the European Union, including households not being part of a Smart Building. As their privacy issues have been heavily discussed in the literature, they serve as the main example for described privacy-preserving solutions.