A Deployment of Ensemble-Based IDS on Raspberry Pi

Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) are essential for safeguarding IoT networks against various attacks. Our previously developed ensemble-based IDS model, which combines stacked Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) networks with ANOVA feature selection, achieved a remarkable accuracy of 97.46% and an overfitting value of 0.22% in classifying network attacks. However, deploying this powerful model on resource-constrained devices like Raspberry Pi poses challenges due to limited computational resources. In this paper, we tackle these challenges by converting the original model to TensorFlow Lite (TFLite) and applying quantization techniques to optimize the model size for deployment on a Raspberry Pi 3b+. Our approach significantly reduces the model size by 90.9% while maintaining an impressive accuracy of 96.96%, only a 0.5% reduction from the original model. The optimized model demonstrates efficient performance on the Raspberry Pi, with a loading time of 100.2ms and an inference time of 1.2ms.