What is IoT Inspector?
Built by academic researchers, IoT Inspector is an open-source desktop app that lets you visualize what your smart home IoT devices are doing behind the scene and identify potential security and privacy violations
Visualize network activities
What are my devices doing?
See what your devices are doing, how many bytes they are sending and receiving, and which companies they are communicating with
Identify security and privacy risks
Are my devices hacked?
Based on the network activities, you can see whether your devices are sending data when they are not supposed to, or to companies you don't know about
Learn more: research paper | presentation video | how we collect data | research findings | source code | slide deck
Media coverage: NPR | fast company | washington post | verge | wired | the atlantic | cbc news | 9to5mac | techcrunch | gizmodo | WHCR Voice of Harlem
Who are we?
We are academic researchers from all around the world
Prof. Danny Y. Huang (New York University)
Wei Lin Chen (New York University)
Vijay Prakash (New York University)
Prof. Noah Apthorpe (Colgate University)
Prof. Nick Feamster (University of Chicago)
Dr. Deepak Kumar (Stanford University)
Prof. Gunes Acar (Radboud University)
Prof. Frank Li (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Prof. Arvind Narayanan (Princeton University)
This work is supported in part by National Science Foundation Award #1739809, as well as Amazon, CableLabs, Cisco, Comcast, Hewlett Foundation, and Microsoft.
