A regression based sensor data prediction technique to analyze data trustworthiness in cyber-physical system

A Cyber-Physical System strongly depends on the sensor data to understand the current condition of the environment and act on that. Due to network faults, insufficient power supply, and rough environment, sensor data become noisy and the system may perform unwanted operations causing severe damage. In this paper, a technique has been proposed to analyze the trustworthiness of a sensor reading before performing operation based on the record. The technique employs regression analysis to select nearby sensors and develops a linear model for a target sensor. Using the linear model, target sensor reading is predicted in a particular time stamp with respect to each nearby sensor’s reading. If the difference between the predicted and actual value is within a given limit, the reading is considered as trustworthy for the corresponding nearby sensor. At last, majority consensus is taken to consider the reading as trustworthy. To evaluate the proposed technique, a data set containing temperature reading of 8 sensors for 24 hours was used where first 90% data was used for nearby sensor selection and linear model construction, and rest 10% for testing. The result analysis shows that the proposed technique detects 19, 69, and 73 trustworthy data from 73 records with respect to 3%, 4% and 5% deviation from actual reading.