Empowering Digital Humanism in Smart Built Environments through SOLID Data Spaces

The built environment significantly influences people’s health, comfort, and productivity. With the rise of IoT and the integration of AI solutions in smart environments, buildings have evolved into complex ecosystems, interacting with inhabitants and surrounding systems. Two challenges arise: a knowledge gap in understanding inhabitant behavior’s impact on building systems and the need to address privacy concerns in AI-enabled environments. This research aims to explore these challenges through the lens of digital humanism, focusing on creating semantically enabled data spaces in smart built environments. To this end, we propose LIGO Framework based on Solid specifications to model occupants’ behavior, ensure data ownership, control and privacy as well as enhance communication between inhabitants and building services.