LOKI: Development of an interface for task-based, privacy-friendly smart home control through LOCal Information Processing
Paul Gerber, Marvin Heidinger, Julia Stiegelmayer, Nina Gerber · 2021
English – Current control systems for smart home devices such as Amazon Echo rely primarily on central data processing on the company’s own servers. Since smart home devices collect potentially sensitive data, this often leads to privacy concerns on the part of users. A privacy-friendly alternative is to process smart home data locally, which would further protect smart home systems from hacking attacks. To this end, in an iterative “human-in-the-loop” process, we developed LOKI, an interface that enables control of a smart home using local information processing. In addition, LOKI provides the option to specify certain routines, enabling task-based control that provides a more natural interaction with smart home devices than device-based control.