ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing ... With so many home automation systems and brands selling smart home devices, creating a smart home ecosystem can feel overwhelming.

Smart home security systems combine many of the features of a traditional burglar alarm with the ability to monitor, control and interact with your alarm from an app on your smartphone or tablet.

It conveniently supports timed-based ... a smart lock also monitors who enters and leaves your house when you're away. While some models simply let you use your phone to open and close doors ...

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The best indoor security cameras we've tested let you watch your home from anywhere and don't cost nearly as much as a full security system ... of analysts covering smart home, home entertainment ...

With it, you can share 30+ access codes, which eliminates the use of spare keys ... The ANSI/BHMA is the most commonly used grading system used to give quality assurance in terms of smart door locks.

Other protocols suffer from vulnerabilities to denial of service attacks that make them impractical to use. This work introduces a lightweight PUF-based protocol that uses secret pattern recognition ...