Welcome back to this course on "Applying Design Patterns for Real World Problems using Scala"! 🎉 In this second lesson, we're diving into two more essential design patterns: Observer and Strategy. These patterns will help us tackle common challenges in smart home systems, enhancing our ability to create a responsive security setup and a flexible climate control system. Let's explore how Scala empowers us to implement these patterns efficiently and elegantly!

In a smart home security system, it's common to have multiple types of sensors that need to respond to certain events, like an alarm trigger. As new sensor types are developed or installed, we want to be able to integrate them without modifying the core security system code. The Observer pattern facilitates this by decoupling the security system from the sensors, allowing for dynamic addition and removal of observers.

We'll begin by defining an AlarmListener trait, which serves as a contract for any sensor that wants to listen for alarm events. Then, we'll create the SecurityControl class, which manages the list of listeners and notifies them when the alarm is triggered.