Balancing Intelligence and Efficiency: Lightweight AI for Intrusion Detection in IIoT
2026 (English)In: Digest of Technical Papers - IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) , 2026Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
The proliferation of resource-constrained Internet-of-Things (IoT) and Industrial IoT (IIoT) devices has intensified the need for local, intelligent cybersecurity solutions that do not rely on cloud connectivity. This paper presents a TinyML-based Intrusion Detection System (IDS) framework designed for embedded edge controllers. Two machine-learning IDS models - a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) and a Random Forest (RF) - were developed and evaluated on the TON-IoT dataset to identify malicious network traffic. Host-side evaluation established baseline performance, while the float-precision RF model was implemented as firmware and validated using hardware-in-the-loop emulation in the Renode RISC-V environment. The resulting binary occupies only 1.6 MB of Flash memory, achieving above 99% detection accuracy with 448 μs average inference latency. These results demonstrate that fully embedded, real-time intrusion detection is feasible within TinyML memory budgets, supporting IEC-62443 compliant anomaly monitoring for industrial devices.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) , 2026.
Series
Digest of Technical Papers - IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics, ISSN 0747-668X
Keywords [en]
Artificial Intelligence (AI), Convolutional Neural Network (CNN), Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS), Random Forest (RF), RISC-V, Budget control, Convolutional neural networks, Firmware, Flash memory, Internet of things, Network intrusion, Network security, Artificial intelligence, Convolutional neural network, Industrial internet of thing, Intrusion detection system, Intrusion Detection Systems, Intrusion-Detection, Random forest, Random forests, Intrusion detection
National Category
Artificial Intelligence
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-77559DOI: 10.1109/ICCE67443.2026.11449649Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-105037359643ISBN: 9798331553432 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:mdh-77559DiVA, id: diva2:2070250
Conference
2026 IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics, ICCE 2026, 3-5 February, 2026, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
2026-06-112026-06-112026-06-11Bibliographically approved