Hey IoT devices! Is anyone there? Presence detection through network monitoring of IoT devices

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Supervisors

Sadre, Ramin

Faculty

Ecole polytechnique de Louvain

Degree label

Master [120] : ingénieur civil en informatique, à finalité spécialisée

Abstract

The rapid proliferation of Internet of Things (IoT) devices has revolutionized the way we interact with technology in our daily lives. More and more of these devices are infiltrating our society and particularly our homes. Innocent at first sight, they facilitate our activities. While the number of connected devices inside our house explodes, their impact on our privacy should be everyone’s concern. These devices often suffer from weak security, but are they safe even with better encryption, firewall, passwords, etc? More and more studies show that we can infer information only by passively "sniffing" their wireless traffic. In this thesis, we will focus on smart homes. We will try, based on real smart environments, to detect the absence or the presence of people inside the home, only by passively capturing unencrypted packet headers from the smart devices inside the house. We will build an approach to achieve this. Afterward, we will evaluate and analyze it.