TITLE:
An Investigative Study for Smart Home Security: Issues, Challenges and Countermeasures
AUTHORS:
Sudhir Chitnis, Neha Deshpande, Arvind Shaligram
KEYWORDS:
HomeOS, Smart Home, Intelligent Remote Monitoring, Graphical Method, Home Security System
JOURNAL NAME:
Wireless Sensor Network,
Vol.8 No.4,
April
25,
2016
ABSTRACT: Home security should be a top concern for everyone who owns or
rents a home. Moreover, safe and secure residential space is the necessity of
every individual as most of the family members are working. The home is left
unattended for most of the day-time and home invasion crimes are at its peak as
constantly monitoring of the home is difficult. Another reason for the need of
home safety is specifically when the elderly person is alone or the kids are
with baby-sitter and servant. Home security system i.e. HomeOS is thus
applicable and desirable for resident’s safety and convenience. This will be
achieved by turning your home into a smart home by intelligent remote
monitoring. Smart home comes into picture for the purpose of controlling and
monitoring the home. It will give you peace of mind, as you can have a close
watch and stay connected anytime, anywhere. But, is common man really concerned
about home security? An investigative study was done by conducting a survey to
get the inputs from different people from diverse backgrounds. The main motivation
behind this survey was to make people aware of advanced HomeOS and analyze
their need for security. This paper also studied the necessity of HomeOS
investigative study in current situation where the home burglaries are rising
at an exponential rate. In order to arrive at findings and conclusions, data
were analyzed. The graphical method was employed to identify the relative
significance of home security. From this analysis, we can infer that the cases
of having kids and aged person at home or location of home contribute
significantly to the need of advanced home security system. At the end, the
proposed system model with its flow and the challenges faced while implementing
home security systems are also discussed.