User and device authentication are vital to the deployment of smart Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Unfortunately, achieving robust authentication on a diverse set of heterogeneous IoT devices remains an open problem. This paper presentsScenario, a generic authentication method to support user-device authentication on a wide range of IoT devices, using RFID-based wireless sensing.Scenarioonly requires attaching an RFID tag on the target device surface. It then uses the unique RFID signal characteristics introduced by the device material and user gestures to perform device and user authentication. We developed a prototype ofScenariousing commercial off-the-shelf devices and applied it to a multi-device smart environment. Experimental results show thatScenariois reliable, giving an average identification accuracy of 97.3% and 96.7% of the device and user authentication stages in diverse environments, respectively.

Wireless sensing builds upon machine learning shows encouraging results. However, adopting wireless sensing as a large-scale solution remains challenging as experiences from deployments have shown the performance of a machine-learned model to suffer when there are changes in the environment, e.g., when furniture is moved or when other objects are added or removed from the environment. We present Rise, a novel solution for enhancing the robustness and performance of learning-based wireless sensing techniques against such changes during a deployment. Rise combines probability and statistical assessments together with anomaly detection to identify samples that are likely to be misclassified and uses feedback on these samples to update a deployed wireless sensing model. We validate Rise through extensive empirical benchmarks by considering 11 representative sensing methods covering a broad range of wireless sensing tasks. Our results show that Rise can identify 92.3% of misclassifications on average. We showcase how Rise can be combined with incremental learning to help wireless sensing models retain their performance against dynamic changes in the operating environment to reduce the maintenance cost, paving the way for learning-based wireless sensing to become capable of supporting long-term monitoring in complex everyday environments.