Over the last few years, there has been a steady increase in smart home technology's pervasiveness, to the degree where consumer IoT is part of many homes. As our homes become complex cyber-physical spaces, the risk to our physical security from attacks originating in cyberspace becomes much more significant. Within the literature, there is much discussion about the technical vulnerabilities within the smart home. However, this is often not linked to a rich understanding of how an attacker could exploit them. In this paper, we focus on residential burglary and develop a rich understanding of the process by which residential burglary is committed and the effect of the smart home on this process. By combining two areas of the academic literature, residential burglary and smart-home security, this paper provides an academically grounded discussion that places the nascent vulnerabilities associated with the smart-home into the context of the process by which burglary is committed. The commission of residential burglary is a complex decision-making process, which the public often simplifies into planned or unplanned crimes; this is a dangerous oversimplification. The analysis identifies some increased risk during the target selection stage phase. However, in the short term, residential burglars are unlikely to exploit smart home technology routinely.

在过去几年中，智能家居技术的普及率稳步上升，消费物联网已成为许多家庭的一部分。随着我们的家庭变成复杂的网络物理空间，源自网络空间的攻击对我们的物理安全造成的风险变得更加重要。在文献中，有很多关于智能家居中技术漏洞的讨论。然而，这通常与对攻击者如何利用它们的丰富理解无关。在本文中，我们专注于住宅入室盗窃，并对住宅入室盗窃的过程以及智能家居对该过程的影响进行了深入的了解。通过结合学术文献的两个领域，入室盗窃和智能家居安全，本文提供了一个有学术依据的讨论，将与智能家居相关的新生漏洞置于盗窃过程的背景中。入室盗窃是一个复杂的决策过程，公众往往将其简化为有计划或无计划的犯罪；这是一种危险的过度简化。分析确定了在目标选择阶段阶段的一些增加的风险。然而，短期内，住宅窃贼不太可能经常利用智能家居技术。这是一种危险的过度简化。分析确定了在目标选择阶段阶段的一些增加的风险。然而，短期内，住宅窃贼不太可能经常利用智能家居技术。这是一种危险的过度简化。分析确定了在目标选择阶段阶段的一些增加的风险。然而，短期内，住宅窃贼不太可能经常利用智能家居技术。