IoT Network Watchdog

Abstract: The Internet of Things (IoT) plays an important role in the coming era of the Internet development. In addition to the convenience and opportunities it brings to us, there comes with the security issues, which could lead to the privacy leakage, it’s a threaten to the whole IoT system. To deal with the potential dangerous element hidden behind this technology, monitoring on the network would be indispensable. To develop and implements the digital network watchdog system that monitors the local network and the connected device, firstly, I surveyed the area related to the IoT attacks. The network monitor system provides basic network monitoring function, connected device tracking and monitoring function, reliable device operating function. I used the packages provided by Raspberry Pi to realize the general monitoring and transferred the captured result for further analysis. Also, I made use of SNMP and drawing tool to create graphs of different parameters in the monitoring of both network and connected devices. Then I implemented database with web service on Raspberry Pi to realize device operating. In evaluation, the system works well in general monitoring with all information provided and low lost package percentage, the graphs can provide situation of different parameters, and the respond time in the operation time of database is short. I discussed the ethical thinking and proposed the ethical thinking and future work.