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Energy-Efficient Machine Learning (ML)-Based Intrusion Detection System (IDS) for IoT Devices

Aug 2026 · International Conference on Circuit, Power and Computing Technologies · pp. 2237-2243 · 0 citations · 29 references

Abstract

The majority of assaults in heterogeneous networks are detected by intrusion detection systems (IDS). Cyberattack kinds that seriously harm networks are difficult for conventional IDSs to detect. The majority of existing solutions rely on deep learning models, which have a significant computational and energy overhead that limits their use in IoT environments with limited resources. A lightweight IDS based on ML is proposed in this research as a solution to this difficulty. Predicting the behavior of network traffic is achieved using ToN-IoT data and a tailored preprocessing pipeline. The voting-based ensemble classifier is built through the combination of models of RF and LightGBM to enhance the stability of the classification. The standard performance measures that are utilized to evaluate the proposed approach include accuracy, precision, recall, F1score, false alarm rates, and ROC analysis. The experimental findings indicate that RF achieve 99.81% accuracy, LGBM achieve 99.83%, and the ensemble model has a high accuracy of 99.99% with very low false alarms. Comparative evaluation with traditional ML and DL models demonstrates improved detection reliability with reduced computational overhead. These results prove that the suggested architecture is both computationally efficient and practically applicable to IoT settings with limited resources. However, direct hardware-level energy measurements are required to fully quantify the energy-saving characteristics of the proposed IDS.

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