Spend your cash on real locks, advises Cranfield University
Gareth Corfield Mon 15 Mar 2021 // 20:07 UTC Share
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Installing a smart doorbell on your abode could actually increase your home s attractiveness to burglars, researchers from Britain s Cranfield University have said.
The defence n security-focused institution s findings fly in the face of heavy marketing from companies such as Amazon s Ring, whose video-enabled doorbell product has been touted around the world as a security-enhancing gadget. It s an affluence clue.
Worse, for vendors, Cranfield University s Dr Duncan Hodges reckoned the presence of a smart doorbell was unlikely to have any significant effect on residential burglary rates. Instead, he said in a summary of a research paper published on the Centre for Research and Evidence on Security Threats website, smart doorbells and smart locks could actually make things worse.
Burgeoning tourism sector hit by COVID-19
Georgia has already emerged as a tourist destination with the launch in 2004 of major infrastructure projects and the renovation of several city centres, such as the coastal city of Batumi and Mestia, at the foot of the mountains.
In 2019, around nine million tourists visited the country, more than twice the size of the Georgian population.
However, the COVID-19 pandemic dealt a major blow to this sector, which accounted for 5 per cent of Georgia s GDP. In 2020, the economy contracted by 6 per cent and lost over 100,000 jobs, according to official figures.
In the hope of compensating for these losses, the Georgian government launched a programme last summer to attract wealthy remote workers with the promise of travel despite anti-COVID-19 restrictions.
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