The Use of Smart Contracts in Increasing the Adoption of Smart Home Devices

According to the 2022 Digital Quality of Life, survey conducted by Surfshark, users from countries such as the UK and the US are sceptical about consumer IoT devices, with 63% of participants saying they find smart devices invasive in their collection of data and 28% of participants said they would not own a smart device due to security concerns. In the same year, over 900 US citizens were surveyed about how they feel about smart home devices, and 73% of the participants had concerns about smart home devices. The concerns are privacy, spying and monitoring, security, targeted marketing, and device hacking [1]. This paper outlines a birds-eye view of a framework intended to allow personal information collected by smart home devices to be stored in the control of the information owner instead of the service provider. With a specific focus on the Smart Contractual Layer, which is responsible for data access control.