Can Artificial Intelligence Keep Your Home Secure?

Mr. Silva said any security plan started with the basics — good locks, strong doors, an alarm system — and could be expanded to full perimeter screening with either monitoring enhanced with artificial intelligence or more traditional…

These Smart Devices Protect Your Home While You’re on Vacation

A smoke alarm is useful only if someone is there to hear it. For our rental unit I installed a Roost battery: If the alarm goes off, I get a notification on my phone, and I can set it to ping a neighbor or family friend, too. (You can find…

Smart Lights Enhance Home Security and Shine a Light on Crime

Scheduling also allows you to vary the times when the lights go on and off throughout the week so that no day repeats and becomes predictable to someone casing your house. And devices such as Philips Hue smart bulbs and the LIFX + BR30 outdoor…

Amazon Unveils Drone That Films Inside Your Home. What Could Go Wrong?

When Amazon’s chief executive, Jeff Bezos, promised in 2013 that drones would soon be flying everywhere delivering packages, a miniature camera whirring through homes and recording video was probably not what people envisioned.But on Thursday,…