Internet of Things

Also known as IoT

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Overview

The Internet of Things studies how connected devices sense and act in homes, factories, cities, and other environments, often with limited power, memory, and bandwidth. Researchers develop embedded and edge AI, federated learning, wireless protocols, and cloud-edge systems to analyze sensor data, coordinate devices, and reduce communication or energy costs. Security and privacy work includes intrusion detection, device identification, trust management, and learning methods that keep raw data local; newer systems also explore language-model agents for smart-home control and IoT development. A central challenge is making these methods reliable across heterogeneous devices and changing conditions, since strong benchmark results do not always transfer to robust, secure real-world deployments.

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  1. Making Smart Homes Fit for Autistic Children: Family Work and Monitored Independence

    Oct 27, 2026Tingting Xiang, Weihan Jiang, Hrishitva Patel +3Internet of ThingsAutism Spectrum Disorder

    Chongqing Jiaotong University, China · Independent Researcher, USA · University of Texas at San Antonio, USA +1

  2. Online Continual Learning in Edge-Cloud Applications

    Oct 23, 2026Charalampos Davalas, Dimitrios Michail, Christos Diou +2Online Continual LearningEdge ML

    Department of Informatics and Telematics, Harokopio University of Athens, Athens, 17778, Greece · School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, 15773, Greece

  3. Implementation of Dynamic Microsegmentation for a Multi-Robot Network

    Oct 21, 2026Vishwam Raval, Jaewon Kim, Ravi Pattabhi +1Internet of ThingsAutonomous Cyber Defense

    Global Cyber Research Institute Texas A&M University College Station, USA · ColorTokens Inc San Jose, CA

  4. Learning Which Device to Call: Online Tool Grounding for LLM Agents in IoT

    Oct 18, 2026Yichen Liu, Xiaochong Jiang, Haoran Yu +1LLM Tool UseTool Selection for Language Model Agents

    Independent Researcher, Seattle, WA, USA · Independent Researcher, Boston, MA, USA

  5. LoopHIL: Looping Hardware into LLM-assisted Agents for Wireless Embedded Systems

    Oct 16, 2026Dhairya Shah, Spanddhana Sara, Savitha Viswanadh Kandala +1LLM Agent EvaluationLLM Agent Harnesses

    National University of Singapore, Singapore

  6. LocalIntent: Outcome-Specific Structured Generation for Backend-Compatible Smart Building Automation with Local LLMs

    Oct 16, 2026Tianyang Liu, Jiayue Wang, Zhanhao Cheng +4LLM PromptingLanguage Model-Based Control

    Beijing Dublin International College, University College Dublin, Beijing, China · School of Computer Science, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

  7. FLoRa: Flight-Assisted Data Collection from Duty Cycling LoRa Nodes under Energy Constraints

    Oct 6, 2026Naresh Babu Kakarla, V. MahendranRobotic Data CollectionInternet of Things

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, 517619, India

  8. CRAFTER: Causality-based Self-adaptation for Autonomous IoT Systems

    Oct 5, 2026Houssam Hajj Hassan, Ajay Kattepur, Denis Conan +1Internet of Things

    IP Paris,SAMOVAR · IP Paris,TSP - INF,ACMES-SAMOVAR · IP Paris,TSP - INF,ACMES-SAMOVAR,ECE

  9. Small Language Models for Smart Data Model Classification at the Edge: A Cost-Aware Hybrid Approach

    Oct 5, 2026Cristian Martella, Angelo Martella, Antonella Longo +1Small Language ModelsSemantic Mapping

    Dept. of Engineering for Innovation, University of Salento, Via Per Monteroni, Lecce, 73100, Italy

  10. Online AutoML: Evaluating Poisoning Attacks on Cost-Utility Adversarial Training Defence Strategy for IoT Networks

    Oct 5, 2026Chukwunonso Henry Nwokoye, Khalil El-Khatib, Li YangAdversarial TrainingInternet of Things

    Faculty of Business and Information Technology, Ontario Tech University, Oshawa, Ontario, Canada · Department of Computer Science, Alex Ekwueme Federal University, Nigeria

  11. SFlexRCA: Lightweight, Scalable, and Flexible Root Cause Analysis for IIoT Edge Systems

    Oct 4, 2026Amr M. Zaki, Farhoud Jafari, Honggeun Ji +2Industrial Internet of ThingsRoot Cause Analysis

    Lassonde School of Engineering, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada

  12. Out of Sync, Out of Sight: Phantom State Attacks against IIoT Intrusion Detection

    Oct 1, 2026Sabrine Ennaji, Elhadj Benkhelifa, Nadia KabachiAdversarial AttacksIoT Intrusion Detection

    Universit´e Lyon 1, Universit´e Lumi`ere Lyon 2, ERIC, 69100 Villeurbanne, France · School of Computer Science and Mathematics, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, U.K.

  13. EdgeCraft: Automated Model Crafting for Edge IoT

    Sep 28, 2026Genglin Wang, Kaiwei Liu, Liekang Zeng +4Edge ComputingInternet of Things

    Department of Information Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China · School of Computer Science, Peking University, Beijing, China

  14. Input-Layer Starvation: Why Per-Layer Pruning Breaks IoT Intrusion Detectors

    Sep 25, 2026Md Anas BiswasNeural Network PruningIoT Intrusion Detection

    School of Computing, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, United Kingdom

  15. Learning Defensive Policies against Diverse Inference Attacks for Smart Meter Privacy

    Sep 21, 2026Ruichang Zhang, Mustafa A. MustafaNon-Intrusive Load MonitoringInternet of Things

    Department of Computer Science, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK · COSIC, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

  16. Trust in Edge-Enabled IoT Security: Features, Challenges and Research Directions

    Sep 21, 2026Esin Ece Aydın, Şerif Bahtiyar, Gürkan GürInternet of ThingsCybersecurity

    Cyber Security and Privacy Research Lab., SPFLab, Department of Computer Engineering, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Türkiye · Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW), Institute of Computer Science (InIT), Winterthur, Switzerland

  17. Distributed Infrastructure Sensors and Cues for Robotic Fire-Fighting and Safety System on a Lunar Base

    Sep 19, 2026Alexis Munguia, Eryc Rodriguez, Drake Russ +1Disaster ResponseRobotics

    Space and Terrestrial Robotic Exploration (SpaceTREx) Laboratory, University of Arizona, 1130 N Mountain Ave., N417, Tucson, AZ 85718

  18. Real-World Deployment and Performance Characterisation of Fog-Based Deep Learning for Cold-Chain Temperature Prediction over LoRaWAN

    Sep 12, 2026Jeremiah Taguta, Jean Frederic Isingizwe Nturambirwe, Clement Nthambazale NyirendaTime Series ForecastingEdge Computing

    Department of Computer Science University of the Western Cape Cape Town, South Africa · eResearch Office University of the Western Cape Cape Town, South Africa

  19. HQARRF: Hierarchical Q-learning and Force-aware Routing for Multi-Charger Scheduling in Wireless Rechargeable Sensor Networks

    Sep 12, 2026Liang-Ching Tao, Pi-Chung WangInternet of ThingsHierarchical RL

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, National Chung Hsing University, 145 Xingda Rd., South District, Taichung 402, Taiwan

  20. PLATOS: A Power and Latency-Aware Task-Oriented Scheduling Strategy for Healthcare IoT in Fog Computing

    Sep 7, 2026Mohammed Alaa Ala'anzy, Zulfiqar Ahmad, Zhanar MukashInternet of ThingsEdge-Cloud Computing

  21. Constrained Bayesian Optimization for Hierarchical Federated Learning in IoT Networks for Plant Disease Classification

    Sep 6, 2026Athanasios Papanikolaou, Athanasios Tziouvaras, Apostolos Xenakis +6Hierarchical Federated LearningInternet of Things

    University of Zagreb, Croatia · University of Thessaly, Greece · International Hellenic University +3

  22. SIDE: Sensor Impersonation Detection at the Edge via Sequence Prediction

    Sep 5, 2026Nahom BirhanInternet of ThingsTime-Series Anomaly Detection

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Old Dominion University Virginia, USA

  23. SeaCausal-FL: Federated Fuzzy Causal Learning for Maritime IoT Fault Diagnosis and Counterfactual Reasoning

    Sep 5, 2026Yuhang Qiu, Haihan Zhu, Koteeswaran Seerangan +6Fault DiagnosisIndustrial Fault Diagnosis

    School of Science, Jimei University, Xiamen 361021, China · School of Artificial Intelligence, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin 300401, China · Department of Computer Science and Engineering, R. M. K. Engineering College (Autonomous), Kavaraipettai - 601206, Tamil Nadu, India +4

  24. Deep Learning-Based Multi-User Communication Design for Dense IoT Networks: Interference-Aware Finite-Blocklength Communication and Preliminary MIMO Extensions

    Aug 24, 2026Arkadeep Sinha, Shubham Paul, R. ManivasakanInternet of ThingsWireless Communications

    Indian Institute of Technology Madras

  25. Performance Drift Detection in Machine Learning as a Service (MLaaS) for IoT Environments

    Aug 19, 2026Deepak Kanneganti, Sajib Mistry, Sheik Mohammad Mostakim Fattah +3Distribution Shift DetectionAnomaly Detection

    School of Electrical Engineering, Computing and Mathematical Sciences (EECMS), Curtin University, Perth, WA, Australia · Department of Computing Science, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

  26. MicroPython and CircuitPython: Pythons Quiet Takeover of IoT and Robotics

    Aug 14, 2026Sayed Mahbub Hasan Amiri, Atiar ZahanInternet of Things

    Faculty of Computer Science, Dhaka Residential Model College, Bangladesh · Faculty of ICT, Chandan Paul Global College, Bangladesh

  27. FBID: Adaptive Personalized Federated Learning for Robust Out-of-Distribution Attack Detection in IoT Networks

    Aug 4, 2026An Khanh Bui, Cong Thanh Nguyen, Hoang-Anh Pham +2Network Intrusion DetectionInternet of Things

    UTS-HCMUT JTIRC, Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology (HCMUT), Ho Chi Minh City 700000, Vietnam. · Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City (VNU-HCM), Ho Chi Minh City 700000, Vietnam. · School of Electrical and Data Engineering, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2007, Australia.

  28. Harnessing Large Language Models for Intelligent Resource Allocation in the Internet of Everything

    Jul 29, 2026Haijun Zhang, Zhuojun Duan, Zijun Wu +2Large Language Model-Guided OptimizationInternet of Things

    Hebei Key Laboratory of Space-Air-Ground Intelligent Communication and Beijing Engineering and Technology Research Center for Convergence Networks and Ubiquitous Services, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, China

  29. Impute On-Demand: Adaptive Correlated Time Series Imputation for Changing Environments

    Jul 26, 2026Zhichen Lai, Huan Li, Dalin Zhang +3Time Series ImputationInternet of Things

    College of Computer and Data Science, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, China; the Engineering Research Center of Big Data Intelligence, Ministry of Education, Fuzhou, China; the Fujian Key Laboratory of Network Computing and Intelligent Information Processing, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, China; and the Department of Computer Science, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark · College of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, and the State Key Laboratory of Blockchain and Data Security, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China · Space Information Research Institute, Hangzhou Dianzi University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China, and the Department of Computer Science, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark +3

  30. EdgeFaaS: A Function-based Framework for Edge Computing

    Jul 16, 2026Neha Vadnere, Yu-Ting Wang, Yitao Chen +2Edge ComputingInternet of Things

    Arizona State University, Tempe, USA