Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices are nowadays massively integrated in daily
life: homes, factories, or public places. This technology offers attractive
services to improve the quality of life as well as new economic markets through
the exploitation of the collected data. However, these connected objects have
also become attractive targets for attackers because their current security
design is often weak or flawed, as illustrated by several vulnerabilities such
as Mirai, Blueborne, etc. This paper presents a novel approach for detecting
intrusions in smart spaces such as smarthomes, or smartfactories, that is based
on the monitoring and profiling of radio communications at the physical layer
using machine learning techniques. The approach is designed to be independent
of the large and heterogeneous set of wireless communication protocols
typically implemented by connected objects such as WiFi, Bluetooth, Zigbee,
Bluetooth-Low-Energy (BLE) or proprietary communication protocols. The main
concepts of the proposed approach are presented together with an experimental
case study illustrating its feasibility based on data collected during the
deployment of the intrusion detection approach in a smart home under real-life
conditions.