Advanced IoT Testbed

Our state of the art IoT Testbed is instrumental to a number of research projects, government regulation reports, TV documentaries, and independent investigations into the security and privacy of smart devices. The testbed consists of over 140 various consumer IoT devices, state of the art network and device performance monitoring (through ), and various automation techniques. Through close collaboration with friends at , We also make our testbed  and publications' datasets available to researchers worldside. Please see below for specific articles, papers, and datasets. We also make various IoT device signatures and destination lists available through the . Our team has won one of the TOP 10 spots in the  Development Stream. We are receiving a generous gift to develop . Stay tuned for more news!

Publications:

  • Oliver Thompson, Anna Maria Mandalari, Hamed Haddadi, “Rapid IoT Device Identification at the Edge”, 2nd Workshop on Distributed Machine Learning (), co-located with CoNEXT 2021, December 7-10, 2021, Munich, Germany. (Paper available on )
  • Anna Maria Mandalari, Daniel J. Dubois, Roman Kolcun, Muhammad Talha Paracha, Hamed Haddadi, David Choffnes, “Blocking without Breaking: Identification and Mitigation of Non-Essential IoT Traffic”, in 21st Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (), July 12–16, 2021, On the Internet. ( and code available on )
  • Said Jawad Saidi, Anna Maria Mandalari, Roman Kolcun, Hamed Haddadi, Daniel J. Dubois, David Choffnes, Georgios Smaragdakis, Anja Feldmann, “A Haystack Full of Needles: Scalable Detection of IoT Devices in the Wild”, in , October 2020, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. ()

  • Daniel J. Dubois, Roman Kolcun, Anna Maria Mandalari, Muhammad Talha Paracha, David Choffnes, Hamed Haddadi, “When Speakers Are All Ears: Characterizing Misactivations of IoT Smart Speakers”, in proceedings of the 20th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (), July 14–18, 2020, Montréal, Canada. (, , , , and ,  , , Channel 4 , , , , , , , , )

  • Anna Maria Mandalari, Roman Kolcun, Hamed Haddadi, Daniel J. Dubois, David Choffnes, “Towards Automatic Identification and Blocking of Non-Critical IoT Traffic Destinations”, Workshop on Technology and Consumer Protection (), Co-located with the 41th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, May 21, 2020, San Francisco, CA. (Paper available on )

  • Ranya Aloufi, Hamed Haddadi, David Boyle, “Emotionless: Privacy-Preserving Speech Analysis for Voice Assistants”, in , ACM CCS 2019 Workshop, November 2019, London, UK. (Available on , Articles on , )

  • Jingjing Ren, Daniel J. Dubois, David Choffnes, Anna Maria Mandalari, Roman Kolcun, Hamed Haddadi, “Information Exposure From Consumer IoT Devices: A Multidimensional, Network-Informed Measurement Approach”, in ACM Internet Measurement Conference 2019 (), October, 2019, Amsterdam, Netherlands. (Community Contribution Award) (, , , , , , )

Media coverage:

  • Consumer Reports: 
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  • BBC News – 
  •  BBC One (Panorama program) –  ()
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  • USA Today – 
  • The Independent – 
  • The New York Times –  
  • Which? – 
  •   first series of  including Smart Speakers and Voice Assistants

SysAL IoT Testbed
SysAL IoT Testbed