S5-HES Agent: Society 5.0-driven Agentic Framework to Democratize Smart Home Environment Simulation
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The smart home is a key domain within the Society 5.0 vision for a human-centered society. Smart home technologies rapidly evolve, and research should diversify while remaining aligned with Society 5.0 objectives. Democratizing smart home research would engage a broader community of innovators beyond traditional limited experts. This shift necessitates inclusive simulation frameworks that support research across diverse fields in industry and academia. However, existing smart home simulators require significant technical expertise, offer limited adaptability, and lack automated evolution, thereby failing to meet the holistic needs of Society 5.0. These constraints impede researchers from efficiently conducting simulations and experiments for security, energy, health, climate, and socio-economic research. To address these challenges, this paper presents the Society 5.0-driven Smart Home Environment Simulator Agent (S5-HES Agent), an agentic simulation framework that transforms traditional smart home simulation through autonomous AI orchestration. The framework coordinates specialized agents through interchangeable large language models (LLMs), enabling natural-language-driven end-to-end smart home simulation configuration without programming expertise. A retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipeline with semantic, keyword, and hybrid search retrieves smart home knowledge. Comprehensive evaluation on S5-HES Agent demonstrates that the RAG pipeline achieves near-optimal retrieval fidelity, simulated device behaviour and threat scenarios align with real-world IoT datasets, and simulation engine scales predictably across home configurations, establishing a stable foundation for Society 5.0 smart home research. Source code is available under the MIT License at https://github.com/AsiriweLab/S5-HES-Agent.