Behavioral Biometrics for IoT Security: A Machine Learning Framework for Smart Homes
Arpit Garg · Journal of recent trends in computer science and engineering. · 2022
The exponential proliferation of IoT devices and smart home technologies has posed fresh challenges in controlling secure access.Outdated mechanisms of access-using passwords, keyfobs, or biometrics-have become inadequate in tackling threats that constantly change and evolve within the heterogeneous and interconnected environments.Thus, ML has been recognized to provide a promising paradigm to strengthen access control mechanisms, to enforce dynamic adaptability, and to realize real-time anomaly detection and behavior-based decision-making powers.This paper conducts extensive research into machine learning-based access control systems for smart home and IoT environments.The limitations of traditional access control methods are discussed, thus underscoring the need for intelligent, automated systems that can learn contextual access behaviors.The second part of the study conducts a thorough literature review that reinforces the advantages of ML models, including Random Forest, CNNs, Autoencoders, and Federated Learning frameworks, for assisting legitimate users while detecting anomalies in real time [3], [5], [6], [10], [28].Proposed is a concept integrating supervised and unsupervised learning models into the access control framework to be trained on benchmark datasets such as IoTID20 and Bot-IoT, with evaluation metrics including accuracy, precision, recall, and F1-score, therefore showing a significant improvement upon detection performance compared to legacy systems.The highest accuracy of 96.1% was achieved by CNNs, whereas Autoencoders did have good anomaly detection capabilities with the lowest training overhead.Moreover, the smart door lock case study allows evaluating real-world applicability and latency performance.Finally, the work describes emerging trends such as privacy-preserving learning, XAI, lightweight edge inference, and 6G-enabled IoT security architecture integration.The studies confirmed and validated that ML-powered access control systems can help to secure IoT while making scalable, adaptive, and intelligent smart home infrastructures.This study offers a working, modular design for the integration of ML-assisted authentication into future-proof smart environments.