Digital Communications and Networks (Aug 2022)
Fast wireless sensor for anomaly detection based on data stream in an edge-computing-enabled smart greenhouse
Abstract
Edge-computing-enabled smart greenhouses are a representative application of the Internet of Things (IoT) technology, which can monitor the environmental information in real-time and employ the information to contribute to intelligent decision-making. In the process, anomaly detection for wireless sensor data plays an important role. However, the traditional anomaly detection algorithms originally designed for anomaly detection in static data do not properly consider the inherent characteristics of the data stream produced by wireless sensors such as infiniteness, correlations, and concept drift, which may pose a considerable challenge to anomaly detection based on data stream and lead to low detection accuracy and efficiency. First, the data stream is usually generated quickly, which means that the data stream is infinite and enormous. Hence, any traditional off-line anomaly detection algorithm that attempts to store the whole dataset or to scan the dataset multiple times for anomaly detection will run out of memory space. Second, there exist correlations among different data streams, and traditional algorithms hardly consider these correlations. Third, the underlying data generation process or distribution may change over time. Thus, traditional anomaly detection algorithms with no model update will lose their effects. Considering these issues, a novel method (called DLSHiForest) based on Locality-Sensitive Hashing and the time window technique is proposed to solve these problems while achieving accurate and efficient detection. Comprehensive experiments are executed using a real-world agricultural greenhouse dataset to demonstrate the feasibility of our approach. Experimental results show that our proposal is practical for addressing the challenges of traditional anomaly detection while ensuring accuracy and efficiency.
