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IoT Inspector is a New York University-led research project designed to help individuals understand the security and privacy risks associated with their own smart homes.

For users

Download IoT Inspector.

You can find screenshots for installing and running IoT Inspector.

Various FAQs, including our data collection policy.

Questions? Talk to the researchers.

For developers

IoT Inspector 3 was released on October 1, 2025. We will be actively updating it for some current research. Please reach out if you have questions

To learn how Inspector scans the network and captures traffic, refer to the Inspector Core Library.

To learn how Inspector constructs the user interface, follow the start.ps1 PowerShell script. A bash script will be created for a cross-platform utility soon.

See Developers' Guide for more information.

IoT Inspector also performs device identification, which predicts IoT vendors from network traffic metadata (OUI, DHCP, hostnames, etc.). See the Device Identification documentation for usage details.

For researchers

Coming in early 2026.