Nowadays the concept of ”pervasive computing” is fully deployed in smart environments to bring more comfort and to allow an
easy access to services for users. Due to this fact it is essential to reconsider some security service delivery in smart
environments. The authentication service is tightly related to the user and must imperatively take into account his capacities,
his preferences and his environment, to be efficient for dependent people. In this paper we propose a new architecture able
to provide an intelligent authentication based on modelisation parameters of both the environment and the user profile which
are used to build an authentication strategy.
Keywords Pervasive computing - smart home - user profile - dependent people - security - authentication - biometrics