An electrical engineering student at the National University of Samoa, Christian Tamiano made a project called the 'Door Alarm'. He hopes this will help in combating burglary.

He made the project by using things he learned in the classroom on different circuits.

"The project that I did is the usage of different circuits in the homes of our families. This offers some kind of persuasion for the people who love to decorate their places with lights," he said.

"But there are also other projects that are great for the safety of our families like the smoke alarms or door detectors. It can be used to secure your homes to avoid burglars targeting your home."

Christian is in his final year at N.U.S in the Faculty of Technical Education. He is Samoan with Tongan heritage. The door alarm project worked and some college students were quite fond of it. Every time they open the door the alarm sound comes on.

"If someone tries to break into your home, the alarm will go off and you will know that your home is being attacked. In terms of security, I recommend this," he said.

"These are some of the things that I've learnt in my electrical engineering course and I have tried to put it into trial."

With his electrical engineering course, he can do things that were beyond his imagination he could do. He was able to improve his skills and knowledge on electricity.

"This course is very important as it has allowed us to think outside the box and explore a lot of things. Our interest in the course grows more and more as we study, it improves and enhances our knowledge and we get to think of a lot of ideas and different methods that we come up with. I know for a fact that without electricity our homes will not have power, and many others."

"This project is just a model. But if somehow we decide to take this out to the community, then we will create a more secure and safe to use by our people. We will test it out first and until we know for sure that it is safe then we can allow it for the public to get it. We are all about safety. There are procedures as well to go through."

He hopes that in the next five or 10 years he will see that this project is put to good use. With the number of thefts and burglaries cases happening in Samoa, he believes this could also help reduce the number of such crimes.