AST 'CHAMPIONS' Edition December 2017 Digital-Dec | Page 72

Making Home a Safer Place
Volume 18
December 2017 Edition
By Alice DiSanto, Director of Marketing, Sharp Electronics
Corporation
The word home has far-reaching conno-
tations for each of us. Sanctifying home to be safe and secure becomes
a shared goal to which we all can contribute.
Beyond the building where we reside, it can be
where we work (home office), where we feel at
ease (hometown), or where we feel most akin
(homeland). This concept is nothing new, but our approach
must be.
Whether private or public, home is a place of be-
longing and refuge.
Society’s advances bring with them increasing
threats and vulnerabilities.
The more sophisticated we become, the more
apt wrongdoers are to turn that know-how to their
agenda.
We would be remiss to ignore this fact. Instead,
we should use technology to safeguard every
place we call home.
A good start is to better protect those on
the frontline of protecting us.
Shouldering the majority of responsibility are se-
curity guards, law enforcement, and the military.
Augmenting their efforts to include robotics is
72