Design a platform for providing home-based services concerning: care, safety, comfort and fun

Currently the information about a house is scattered over different websites and stored on different servers on the internet. House owners, inhabitants and renters perceive this to be a problem. Additionally, they often have problems sharing data with third parties in a simple and secure way, without any external applications using their private data without their permission. Besides end-users, several stakeholders are involved in this problem such as service providers and data providers. These different stakeholders need to have a platform where their needs can be met by cooperating with each other to offer the best service possible. The problem that is addressed in this thesis is how to create this platform: to decide which services can be implemented in the platform that will use the end-users’ data, to choose the software architecture and how to solve the trust issue between end-users and the different parties involved.