Exploiting Air Quality Monitors to Perform Indoor Surveillance: Academic Setting

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Main Authors: Karmakar, Prasenjit, Pradhan, Swadhin, Chakraborty, Sandip
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Published: 2024
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author Karmakar, Prasenjit
Pradhan, Swadhin
Chakraborty, Sandip
author_facet Karmakar, Prasenjit
Pradhan, Swadhin
Chakraborty, Sandip
contents Changing public perceptions and government regulations have led to the widespread use of low-cost air quality monitors in modern indoor spaces. Typically, these monitors detect air pollutants to augment the end user's understanding of her indoor environment. Studies have shown that having access to one's air quality context reinforces the user's urge to take necessary actions to improve the air over time. Thus, user's activities significantly influence the indoor air quality. Such correlation can be exploited to get hold of sensitive indoor activities from the side-channel air quality fluctuations. This study explores the odds of identifying eight indoor activities (i.e., enter, exit, fan on, fan off, AC on, AC off, gathering, eating) in a research lab with an in-house low-cost air quality monitoring platform named DALTON. Our extensive data collection and analysis over three months shows 97.7% classification accuracy in our dataset.
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spellingShingle Exploiting Air Quality Monitors to Perform Indoor Surveillance: Academic Setting
Karmakar, Prasenjit
Pradhan, Swadhin
Chakraborty, Sandip
Human-Computer Interaction
Changing public perceptions and government regulations have led to the widespread use of low-cost air quality monitors in modern indoor spaces. Typically, these monitors detect air pollutants to augment the end user's understanding of her indoor environment. Studies have shown that having access to one's air quality context reinforces the user's urge to take necessary actions to improve the air over time. Thus, user's activities significantly influence the indoor air quality. Such correlation can be exploited to get hold of sensitive indoor activities from the side-channel air quality fluctuations. This study explores the odds of identifying eight indoor activities (i.e., enter, exit, fan on, fan off, AC on, AC off, gathering, eating) in a research lab with an in-house low-cost air quality monitoring platform named DALTON. Our extensive data collection and analysis over three months shows 97.7% classification accuracy in our dataset.
title Exploiting Air Quality Monitors to Perform Indoor Surveillance: Academic Setting
topic Human-Computer Interaction
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.05779