A Cyber-Physical System to Detect IoT Security Threats of a Smart Home Heterogeneous Wireless Sensor Node

The advent of the Internet of Things (IoT) allows the Cyber-Physical System (CPS) components to communicate with other devices, and to interact with safety-critical systems, posing new research challenges in security, privacy, and reliability. Efficient power measurement in smart IoT devices has become one of the key research topics. In this paper, we design and develop a CPS to detect IoT security threats via behavioral power profiling of a heterogeneous wireless sensor device using a Raspberry Pi and a smartphone. Experimentation and verification have been conducted on a group of smart IoT devices with different test scenarios, including the device in an idle and active state with distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) and a man-in-the-middle (MitM) attack. We propose to use the device power consumption rate to predict and detect a security threat using statistical signal processing and multivariate regression model. The proposed system can detect a potential security threat with an average accuracy of 80% and a device high of 89%.