Privacy, security and ethics in smart buildings
A smart building observes the people inside it. Whether that observation is acceptable depends on governance decided long before the sensors are installed.
Within the Brains4Buildings programme, Tousif co-authored a practical framework for integrating privacy, security and ethics into smart-building projects, reviewed by Siemens and the Rijksvastgoedbedrijf, and extended it into a peer-reviewed article for REHVA Journal.
The framework connects responsible data use with organisational responsibilities: who decides what is collected, who is accountable for it, and how those decisions support, rather than obstruct, digital adoption.
- Integrating Privacy, Security, and Ethics in Smart Buildings: A Practical Framework for Digital ResilienceChochanova, E. & Rahman, T. — REHVA Journal, 06/2025, pp. 9–13.Read the REHVA Journal article ↗
- Privacy, Security and Ethics Framework for Smart BuildingsRahman, T. & Chochanova, E. — Brains4Buildings public report, 2023; reviewed by Siemens and the Rijksvastgoedbedrijf.