Internet of Things Devices in Modern Dwellings: Analysis and Solutions

This report comprehensively examines the application of Internet of Things (IoT) devices within residential settings. It begins by introducing the concept of IoT and its transformative impact on modern living. The report then details various IoT devices suitable for dwellings, including Belkin Wemo, Canary, Energy Aware Technology Neurio, Grid Connect Connectsense, Interactive Voice ivee Sleek, Lowe’s Iris, Sen.se Mother, SmartThings, Lifx Color 1000, Neato Botvac Connected Robot Vacuum, D-Link WI-Fi Water Sensor, and SkyBell HD WI-Fi Video Doorbell. Each device is described in terms of its functionality and potential benefits. Following the device descriptions, the report delves into the challenges associated with IoT adoption, such as usage complexities, control issues, connectivity problems, security vulnerabilities, and privacy concerns. The report concludes by proposing solutions to mitigate these issues, emphasizing the need for proper regulations, enhanced security measures, and user awareness to ensure the safe and effective integration of IoT devices into dwellings.

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Table of Contents
Introduction:....................................................................................................................................2
IoT Devices within the Dwelling.....................................................................................................2
Issues Related with Iot Devices.......................................................................................................2
Usage Issues.................................................................................................................................2
Control Issues..............................................................................................................................2
Connectivity Issues......................................................................................................................2
Security Issues.............................................................................................................................2
Privacy issues...............................................................................................................................2
Solution to the Issues Raised on the application of Iot Devices......................................................2
Dwelling Layout..............................................................................................................................2
Conclusion:......................................................................................................................................2
References:......................................................................................................................................2

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Introduction:
In this new digital world, everything is being advanced and innovative and enabling
individuals to live with more comfort. IoT devices are the top most priority of this report and
even it is playing a vital role in transforming this world in far better way. The aim of this report
is to provide description on the IoT devices that can be used within the dwelling and enhance the
way of live living. This report focuses on some of the devices that are stated in this report and
explains how they work and what is new in them. All the devices selected can be the better
option for the dwelling. The coin has two sides, similarly application of IoT devices have both
advantages and disadvantages. This report also focuses on the issues that can be raised due to
incorporation of these devices into daily life.
IoT Devices within the Dwelling
Belkin Wemo: It is a home automation system produced by Belkin that can control plugs,
smart switches, lighting devices, motion sensors, and LED light bulbs that are powered by
Belkin using a smartphone application or browser. This product does not require any hub or
cable to connect with the device rather it uses free cloud services of Belkin (Choudhary &
Muralidharan, 2014). Each device is being operated at unique channel, which can be used to link
the devices to online services like triggering specifications via Gmail.
Canary: It is an all-in-one home security system in which HD video camera is being
incorporated including sensors for motion, air quality, temperature, vibration and sound in a
single unit. This device sends alerts and notifications on the mobile applications whenever it
senses some change in the environment, using machine learning in order to determine and

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discriminate between the normal activity and activities that are not normal (Chien, 2017). A user
can configure how many users will be alerted whenever changes occur.
Energy Aware Technology Neurio: It monitors various activities of the devices such as
break down activity of the appliance, power use and interpret the activities using machine
learning, and also enables an user to get notified whenever some important change occurs like
oven is still turned on or many others (Kulla, Elmazi & Baroli, 2016). A Wi-Fi enabled sensor is
being enabled inside the electrical panel by Neurio, which works in manner to identify individual
appliances and devices by their “power signatures.”
Grid Connect Connectsense: It is another home security device, which is an established
product in the sensor market industry that enables being notified via Wi-Fi router and other
brands of ConnectSense light, motion, water, humidity, temperature, window and door sensors in
order to monitor the security of the home. No hubs or cables are needed for such devices, thus it
can be placed at any place at the house even in basement where there is no outlets nearby.
Interactive Voice ivee Sleek (replaced by ivee Voice): It has a simple look as an
automated alarm clock but incorporated with the innovative functions as an interface using voice
activation service that enables the user to communicate with the SmartThings smart home
monitoring, the Nest smart home thermostat, and the Staples Connected Home and controlling
systems. It can also broadcast weather report and other news and information from the internet.
Lowe’s Iris: It can be described as the advanced version of the home security appliance,
which is a smart home control and monitoring system that can support varieties of smart
appliances and devices from sensors for the home security to water usage monitoring through the
new technology implementation ‘smart sprinkler system’. The basic service is being offered free

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for this device while, the premium services which is on monthly basis can be used to create
custom rules like video streaming, recording to the cloud, use ivee Sleek voice control and send
notifications or alerts to more than one user.
Sen.se Mother: It is a smart home suit with maternally themed that includes cookies
(wireless sensors) and Mother (the hub) that helps in attaching with the people or objects and that
can be programmed in manner to analyze and monitor the movements that are being made during
any activity including temperature and the location.
SmartThings: It can support a variety range smart devices including smart appliances and
Sonos sound systems and provides accessibility to the user to manage everything using
smartphone. It is a smart home automation system that includes a communication hub that is
compatible with the IP-accessible devices, Z-Wave and ZigBee protocols (Sicarin et al., 2015).
Lifx Color 1000: It is one of the best color-changing smart bulbs, which are more
efficient and brighter than any other bulb, which can be used within the dwelling to improve
experience. It does not need any hub so it can be kept at any place and change the mood by
changing color of the whole surrounding. It also supports mobile application system in manner to
control the device using any mobile device and is integrated with Alexa and IFTTT that enables
better user interface and automation to control the color and intense of the light (Tang, 2017).
Neato Botvac Connected Robot Vacuum: It is a robot vacuum with best performance than
any other device with remote control functionality. Previous version was not remote controlled
device but in its new launch it is incorporated with remote control technology that enables using
the vacuum with a simple mobile application. Even the cost is high but it is less than any other
product of the competitors (Kaminski et al., 2016).

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D-Link WI-Fi Water Sensor: It is a smart flood sensor device that enables notification
whenever flood seems to rise and push notifications on the smartphone directly that can save
extra expanse that is to be made on the smart home hub. It plugs into the wall that enables the
facility of device without any battery and works using Wi-Fi (Retting et al., 2014).
SkyBell HD WI-Fi Video Door Bell: It is a smart doorbell, which has 1080p resolution
camera and with very good video quality, which is being integrated with the Nest, IFTTT, and
Alexa. It can enable the user to check whether door is locked or not and streams video of the
individual whenever someone rang the doorbell (Scalisi, 2015). It provides a plus benefit of free
online video storage.
Issues Related with Iot Devices
Usage Issues
The enablement of basic technology services and high speed internet for business,
commercial or home purpose in the developing countries are raising certain usage issues with the
application of IoT devices (Yoon, Park & Yoo, 2015). There would be no value of devices until
and unless there is a basic infrastructure is in the surrounding (Ivanus & Iovan, 2016). Using IoT
devices within the Dwelling leads to several layers of complexity that includes user should have
proper knowledge on how to use the devices.
Control Issues
There are not any existing legal laws that can address the exposures like security issues
that are rising due to the gamut of devices that are connected to each other. The IoT devices have
much complex accountability issues, which leads towards the issues, raised lies in whether the
current liability laws will be extended for devices or not (Condry & Nelson, 2016).

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Connectivity Issues
The exchange of information should take place within the IoT devices that are
interconnected to each other in an ideal environment. But the actual scenario is not the same as it
is inherently becoming much complex and becoming dependent on the various levels of
communication protocols are being on stacks between these IoT devices that raised connectivity
issues with its application in the real world (Borgia, 2014).
Security Issues
There are security issues related to the application IoT devices in the real world as if it
not properly secured, and then it becomes vulnerable to cyber attacks that might lead to misusing
the devices and cause harm to the users and also cause harm to the devices that are connected in
the same network. Cyber attacks can lead towards the loss of personal data to the individuals a
user not want to expose and the trust factor will be ended between the technology and the user
(Hossain, Fotouhi & Hasan, 2015). An analyst firm Gartner stated that the “IoT security market
will reach $348 million in 2016, a rise of 23.7% from $281.5 million in 2015”.
Privacy issues
IoT devices are being connected to the network that allows the government and the
private organization to collect personal information related to the individuals without their
permissions. Most of the organization are collecting and storing the data and information in their
database to make the Big Data system more efficient through tracking the behaviors of the users.
Collecting personal information without their permissions lead to several privacy issues that is
very critical concern in using such devices.

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Solution to the Issues Raised on the application of Iot Devices
By the growth of internet access across globally at the various sectors of the developing
countries along with cheap prices for sensors and microprocessors will lead to the accessibility to
the households who have low income. There should be proper rules and regulation according to
the law for both the organization producing devices and for the customers who are affecting in
negative manner by the usage of IoT devices. This will help in eliminating or minimizing the
connectivity issues related to the use of IoT devices (Sicari et al., 2015). In manner to evade the
scenarios related to the security and privacy issues of the individual, ensuring the security is
extremely critical including the reliability and resilience of internet applications in manner to
promote the devices that works on enabling internet usage among different users across the
world (Yoshigoe et al., 2015).
There are several other measures that could be helpful in mitigating the raised issues like
embedding security at various layers like risk management, network and endpoint user approach,
application and data and many more. Proper agreement should be made between the user and the
product distributor about the specifications and warranty of the device with a long-term
agreement (Stankovic, 2014). Another approach could be the revolv’s approach that can be
helpful in enabling the customers to buy the products that are best and integrated with latest and
advanced hardware and software.

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Dwelling Layout
Figure 1: Dwelling layout IoT Devices
(Source: Created by Author)
Conclusion:
Based on the above report it can be concluded that IoT devices applications are
increasing rapidly and enhancing every activity in automated way with better efficiency and easy
manner. Information technology has become the integral part of the life so there is not any way

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to stop using those technologies in our daily life operations. The devices mentioned in the above
report are capable of transforming all the manual activities into automated system and eliminate
the efforts that could have consumed during for the processing. Most of the technologies uses
wireless connectivity, which raises to certain privacy and security issues as wireless technology
are more vulnerable to be misused or breached. The issues that have been stated in the above
report can be raised cannot be eliminated completely but can be minimized with certain efforts
that has also been depicted in the above report.

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