Cloud-edge collaborative data anomaly detection in industrial sensor networks.

Industrial sensor networks exhibit heterogeneous, federated, large-scale, and intelligent characteristics due to the increasing number of Internet of Things (IoT) devices and different types of sensors. Efficient and accurate anomaly detection of sensor data is essential for guaranteeing the system&...

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Main Authors: Tao Yang, Xuefeng Jiang, Wei Li, Peiyu Liu, Jinming Wang, Weijie Hao, Qiang Yang
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Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2025-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0324543
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author Tao Yang
Xuefeng Jiang
Wei Li
Peiyu Liu
Jinming Wang
Weijie Hao
Qiang Yang
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Jinming Wang
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description Industrial sensor networks exhibit heterogeneous, federated, large-scale, and intelligent characteristics due to the increasing number of Internet of Things (IoT) devices and different types of sensors. Efficient and accurate anomaly detection of sensor data is essential for guaranteeing the system's operational reliability and security. However, existing research on sensor data anomaly detection for industrial sensor networks still has several inherent limitations. First, most detection models usually consider centralized detection. Thus, all sensor data have to be uploaded to the control center for analysis, leading to a heavy traffic load. However, industrial sensor networks have high requirements for reliable and real-time communication. The heavy traffic load may cause communication delays or packets lost by corruption. Second, there are complex spatial and temporal features in industrial sensor data. The full extraction of such features plays a key role in improving detection performance. Nevertheless, the majority of existing methodologies face challenges in simultaneously and comprehensively analyzing both features. To solve the limitations above, this paper develops a cloud-edge collaborative data anomaly detection approach for industrial sensor networks that mainly consists of a sensor data detection model deployed at individual edges and a sensor data analysis model deployed in the cloud. The former is implemented using Gaussian and Bayesian algorithms, which effectively filter the substantial volume of sensor data generated during the normal operation of the industrial sensor network, thereby reducing traffic load. It only uploads all the sensor data to the sensor data analysis model for further analysis when the network is in an anomalous state. The latter based on GCRL is developed by inserting Long Short-Term Memory network (LSTM) into Graph Convolutional Network (GCN), which can effectively extract the spatial and temporal features of the sensor data for anomaly detection. The proposed approach is extensively assessed through experiments using two public industrial sensor network datasets compared with the baseline anomaly detection models. The numerical results demonstrate that the proposed approach outperforms the existing state-of-the-art models.
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spelling doaj-art-c704c9f5719642ff856ef0a63a3d95dc2025-08-20T02:39:59ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032025-01-01206e032454310.1371/journal.pone.0324543Cloud-edge collaborative data anomaly detection in industrial sensor networks.Tao YangXuefeng JiangWei LiPeiyu LiuJinming WangWeijie HaoQiang YangIndustrial sensor networks exhibit heterogeneous, federated, large-scale, and intelligent characteristics due to the increasing number of Internet of Things (IoT) devices and different types of sensors. Efficient and accurate anomaly detection of sensor data is essential for guaranteeing the system's operational reliability and security. However, existing research on sensor data anomaly detection for industrial sensor networks still has several inherent limitations. First, most detection models usually consider centralized detection. Thus, all sensor data have to be uploaded to the control center for analysis, leading to a heavy traffic load. However, industrial sensor networks have high requirements for reliable and real-time communication. The heavy traffic load may cause communication delays or packets lost by corruption. Second, there are complex spatial and temporal features in industrial sensor data. The full extraction of such features plays a key role in improving detection performance. Nevertheless, the majority of existing methodologies face challenges in simultaneously and comprehensively analyzing both features. To solve the limitations above, this paper develops a cloud-edge collaborative data anomaly detection approach for industrial sensor networks that mainly consists of a sensor data detection model deployed at individual edges and a sensor data analysis model deployed in the cloud. The former is implemented using Gaussian and Bayesian algorithms, which effectively filter the substantial volume of sensor data generated during the normal operation of the industrial sensor network, thereby reducing traffic load. It only uploads all the sensor data to the sensor data analysis model for further analysis when the network is in an anomalous state. The latter based on GCRL is developed by inserting Long Short-Term Memory network (LSTM) into Graph Convolutional Network (GCN), which can effectively extract the spatial and temporal features of the sensor data for anomaly detection. The proposed approach is extensively assessed through experiments using two public industrial sensor network datasets compared with the baseline anomaly detection models. The numerical results demonstrate that the proposed approach outperforms the existing state-of-the-art models.https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0324543
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