Empowering Cross-Device Data Security Verification for IoT Sensor Nodes

In the process of realizing the Internet of Everything through the Internet of Things (IoT), the massive deployment of sensor nodes poses significant security challenges. This paper introduces a novel approach to anomaly detection. The proposed method focuses on generating secure replicas of sensor data, which are compared with real-time data to identify anomalies. This process ensures robust detection across multiple devices and terminals, a key challenge in the realization of the Internet of Everything. The model combines Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) networks and Variational Autoencoders (VAE), leveraging their strengths in capturing temporal dependencies and learning latent feature representations from sensor data. To enhance detection accuracy in complex environments, an adaptive threshold algorithm is employed, dynamically adjusting thresholds based on real-time data's statistical properties. A crossattention mechanism is also integrated, allowing the model to effectively capture spatio-temporal relationships between sensors. Additionally, we employed a weighted smoothing algorithm to reduce noise while preserving data integrity, ensuring accurate anomaly detection even in noisy environments. Finally, we evaluated our method using the real-world dataset of the Belgian railway bridge KW51. The results indicate that our system can generate sensor data replicas with 99.02% accuracy and detect abnormal data with 99.8% precision. Based on these findings, we believe that this novel approach can effectively perform anomaly detection and provide robust support for IoT security across multiple terminals and devices.