Modernizing a Security Alarm System

Diomidis Spinellis

doi:10.1109/MS.2025.3539364

Modernizing a Security Alarm System

Diomidis Spinellis^*

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Software Engineering

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Abstract

IN CONTRAST TO physical objects and living things, software doesn’t deteriorate with the passage of time. While we age and our shoes fall apart, digital storage ensures that the software’s bits stay immutable. And yet, software needs substantial maintenance over time, owing to changes in its environment.1 Advancing technology and new requirements prompt us to modernize the software to keep it relevant. Here, I show how these changes happen in practice by describing the evolution and modernization of a burglar alarm security system I first developed a quarter-century ago. […]

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	18-21
Number of pages	4
Journal	IEEE Software
Volume	42
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/MS.2025.3539364
Publication status	Published - 2025

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