Detecting Anomaly Data for IoT Sensor Networks

Abstract

The Internet of Things, or IoT, has been widely recognized as a new perception paradigm for interacting between the digital world and the physical one. Acting as the interface and integral part of the Internet of Things, sensors embedded within the network are the principal components that collect the unprocessed data, and these sensors are usually deployed in unattended, hostile, or harsh areas, which inevitably makes the sensor readings prone to faults and even anomalies. Therefore, the quality of sensor readings will ultimately affect the quality of various data-oriented IoT services, and the sensor data are of vital importance affecting the performance of the system. However, the data anomaly detection is a nontrivial task for IoT because sensors are usually resource-constrained devices with limited computing, communication, and capacity. Therefore, an efficient and lightweight detecting method is needed to meet the requirements. In this study, we deal with the anomaly data by detecting the source sensor nodes through combination methods of the local outlier factor and time series. Simulations show that the proposed method can effectively detect the anomaly data and presents a better normal data rate.