This review examines advancements in smart home security through the integration of home automation technologies. Various security systems, including surveillance cameras, smart locks, and motion sensors, are analyzed, highlighting their effectivenes...
As the Internet of Things (IoT) continues to revolutionize the way we interact with our living spaces, the concept of smart homes has become increasingly prevalent. However, along with the convenience and connectivity offered by IoT-enabled devices i...
The growing demand for innovative home security solutions has accelerated the integration of advanced technologies to enhance safety, convenience, and operational efficiency. Artificial intelligence (AI) has become a pivotal element in revolutionizin...
At times of crisis, home gardening has often been sought out as a potential solution for threats to food security and as a measure to increase socio-psychological effects, such as public sense of self-efficacy, trust in the government and care for on...
The residential environment is constantly evolving technologically. With this evolution, sensors have become intelligent interconnecting home appliances, personal computers, and mobile devices. Despite the benefits of this interaction, these devices...
Plant genetic resources provide the basis for sustainable agricultural production, adaptation to climate change, and economic development. Many present crop plants are endangered due to extreme environmental conditions induced by climate change or du...
Smart home devices and home automation systems, which control features such as lights, blinds, heaters, door locks, cameras, and speakers, have become increasingly popular and can be found in homes worldwide. Central to these systems are smart home h...
The growing demand for an independent and comfortable lifestyle has motivated the development of the smart home, and providing security is a major challenge for developers and security analysts. Enhancing security in the home environment has been rec...
This paper investigates the challenge of finding and analyzing security vulnerabilities among widely available low-budget Internet of Things smart home appliances. It considers the identification of security vulnerabilities within the appliances&rsqu...
With virtual assistants, both changes and serious conveniences are provided in human life. For this reason, the use of virtual assistants is increasing. The virtual assistant software has started to be produced as separate devices as well as working...
Addressing food security is one of the national priorities in South Africa, enshrined under the country’s constitution, yet there is a growing percentage of households struggling to meet their food requirements. Food insecurity and malnutrition...
With the rapid rise of digitalization in the global economy, home security systems have become increasingly important for personal comfort and property protection. The collaboration between humans, the Internet of Things (IoT), and smart homes can be...
For the betterment of human life, smart Internet of Things (IoT)-based systems are needed for the new era. IoT is evolving swiftly for its applications in the smart environment, including smart airports, smart buildings, smart manufacturing, smart ho...
This study presents the design and development of an AI-based Smart Security System leveraging IoT technology for smart home applications. This research focuses on exploring and evaluating various artificial intelligence (AI) and Internet of Things (...
Home gardens are often conceived as a panacea to contribute to the problem of food insecurity in poor rural and urban households. However, systematic reviews indicate weak evidence of significant impacts on families. This way, there has been an inten...
With the emergence of smart and converged home services, the need for the secure and easy interplay of various devices has been increased. Push Button Configuration (PBC) is one of the technologies proposed for easy set-up of a secure session between...
Prior research suggests that food security status may have an effect on the home food environment. Further, the literature suggests that food access factors may function to influence said relationship. The purpose of this research is to fill a gap in...
In smart home environments, the interaction between a remote user and devices commonly occurs through a gateway, necessitating the need for robust user authentication. Despite numerous state-of-the-art user-authentication schemes proposed over the ye...
Under the background of rapid aging in China, the security of the elderly in home care has become the focus of social attention. The present study takes the Hubin community of Ningde City as the case study area; and uses hierarchical regression analy...
The increasing prevalence of IoT technology in smart homes has significantly enhanced convenience but also introduced new security and safety challenges. Traditional security solutions, reliant on sequences of IoT-generated event data (e.g., notifica...
During the COVID-19 pandemic, most organizations were forced to implement a work-from-home policy, and in many cases, employees have not been expected to return to the office on a full-time basis. This sudden shift in the work culture was accompanied...
Bluetooth is an important technical standard for short-range and low-power wireless communication. The home automation and entertainment (HAE) systems often make use of Bluetooth technology to link different Bluetooth devices and form Bluetooth netwo...
The increasing adoption of smart home devices has raised significant concerns regarding privacy, security, and vulnerability to cyber threats. This study addresses these challenges by presenting a federated learning framework enhanced with blockchain...
Food insecurity is a global challenge, particularly affecting developing nations. This study evaluated the role of home gardens in addressing food security in rural upland regions of Laos among three different types of vulnerable households. To addre...
Even while living circumstances and construction techniques have generally improved, occupants of these spaces frequently feel unsatisfied with the sense of security they provide, which leads to looking for and eventually enacting ever-more-effective...
The rapid proliferation of Internet of Things (IoT) technologies has transformed the modern home into a complex cyber–physical ecosystem encompassing hundreds of millions of connected devices globally. Smart homes support automation, energy man...
NetworkGuard is a modular edge-based virtual network sensing framework designed for residential smart home security. The system interprets network telemetry—such as DNS queries, firewall events, VPN latency, and connection establishment delay&m...
In the current era of smart homes and smart grids, complex technical systems that allow for the automation of domestic functions are rapidly growing and becoming more widely available. A wide range of technologies and software applications are now av...
Smart environment technology has matured to the point where it is regularly used in everyday homes as well as research labs. With this maturation of the technology, we can consider using smart homes as a practical mechanism for improving home securit...
IoT devices are used frequently in smart homes. To better understand how users perceive the security of IoT devices in their smart homes, a model was developed and tested with multiple linear regression. A total of 306 participants participated in th...
The Internet of Things (IoT) is an emerging paradigm focusing on the connection of devices, objects, or “things” to each other, to the Internet, and to users. IoT technology is anticipated to become an essential requirement in the development of smar...
Smart homes are becoming increasingly common, bringing convenience to users but also raising serious security concerns. As the number of connected devices grows, so does the research interest in securing smart homes. However, the literature is broad,...
As the Internet of Things (IoT) has developed, the emerging sensor network (ESN) that integrates emerging technologies, such as autonomous driving, cyber-physical systems, mobile nodes, and existing sensor networks has been in the limelight. Smart ho...
This article explores existing learning gaps concerning optimal ways to support children within and beyond secure care in England and Wales, with a specific focus on Secure Children’s Homes (SCHs). Insights from key stakeholders working in SCHs...
Smart home automation is expected to improve living standards with the evolution of internet of things (IoT) that facilitate the remote control of residential appliances. There are, however, several factors that require attention for broader successf...
Smart homes have been shown to be one of the most important applications of Internet of Things (IoT); however, security issues are still the main drawback to be improved, especially facing the problem of terminal power constraint and distributed netw...
Smart-home environments require secure and reliable user authentication mechanisms to prevent unauthorized access and spoofing attacks. Traditional password- and PIN-based methods remain vulnerable to theft, replay attacks, and credential compromise....
Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) provide noteworthy benefits over traditional approaches for several applications, including smart homes, healthcare, environmental monitoring, and homeland security. WSNs are integrated with the Internet Protocol (IP)...
The rapid evolution of Smart Homes and Smart Buildings is driven by the transition from the Internet of Things (IoT) to the Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT). Within this scenario, Security Systems are particularly critical and data-intensive...
A Smart Home is characterized by the presence of a huge number of small, low power devices, along with more classical devices. According to the Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm, all of them are expected to be always connected to the Internet in orde...
The rapid expansion of 5G-enabled Internet of Things (IoT) devices in smart homes has heightened the need for robust, privacy-preserving, and real-time cybersecurity mechanisms. Traditional cloud-based security systems often face latency and privacy...
Often the Internet of Things (IoT) is considered as a single problem domain, with proposed solutions intended to be applied across a wide range of applications. However, the privacy and security needs of critical engineering infrastructure or sensiti...
Highly sensitive information about people’s social life and daily activities flows in smart home networks. As such, if attackers can manage to capture or even eavesdrop on this information, the privacy of the users can be compromised. The conse...
Internet of Things (IoT) technology is increasingly pervasive in all aspects of our life and its usage is anticipated to significantly increase in future Smart Cities to support their myriad of revolutionary applications. This paper introduces a new...
Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs) are complex systems comprising computation, physical, and networking assets. Used in various domains such as manufacturing, agriculture, vehicles, etc., they blend the control of the virtual and physical worlds. Smart ho...
Smart appliances’ run schedule and electric vehicles charging can be managed over a smart grid enabled home area network (HAN) to reduce electricity demand at critical times and add more plug-in electric vehicles to the grid, which eventually l...
Home delivery (B2C) experienced rapid growth during the COVID-19 pandemic, especially food delivery. Nonrepudiation is a problem in security and affects delivery. Blockchain technology is a new technology that addresses this issue. This paper propose...
Security and privacy in the Internet of Things (IoT) other significant challenges, primarily because of the vast scale and deployment of IoT networks. Blockchain-based solutions support decentralized protection and privacy. In this study, a private b...
The proliferation of IoT devices has led to the development of smart appliances, gadgets, and instruments to realize a significant vision of a smart home. Conspicuously, this paper presents an intelligent framework of a foot-mat-based intruder-monito...
With the popularity of smart home services, smart home devices are also increasing significantly. At the same time, security problems of smart home services are becoming more and more important. With the characteristics of non-tampering and multi-par...
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