2009 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Mote-Based Online Anomaly Detection Using Echo State Networks
Authors : Marcus Chang, Andreas Terzis, Philippe Bonnet
Published in: Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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Sensor networks deployed for scientific data acquisition must inspect measurements for faults and events of interest. Doing so is crucial to ensure the relevance and correctness of the collected data. In this work we unify fault and event detection under a general
anomaly detection
framework. We use machine learning techniques to classify measurements that resemble a training set as
normal
and measurements that significantly deviate from that set as
anomalies
. Furthermore, we aim at an anomaly detection framework that can be implemented on motes, thereby allowing them to continue collecting scientifically-relevant data even in the absence of network connectivity. The general consensus thus far has been that learning-based techniques are too resource intensive to be implemented on mote-class devices. In this paper, we challenge this belief. We implement an anomaly detection algorithm using Echo State Networks (ESN), a family of sparse neural networks, on a mote-class device and show that its accuracy is comparable to a PC-based implementation. Furthermore, we show that ESNs detect more faults and have fewer false positives than rule-based fault detection mechanisms. More importantly, while rule-based fault detection algorithms generate false negatives and misclassify events as faults, ESNs are
general
, correctly identifying a wide variety of anomalies.