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ArticlePatterns (New York, N.Y.)2026

IoT-LLM: A framework for enhancing large language model reasoning from real-world sensor data.

Tuo An, Yunjiao Zhou, Han Zou, Jianfei Yang

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Article in Patterns (New York, N.Y.), 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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Tuo AnMARS Lab, School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 639798, Singapore.
Yunjiao ZhouSchool of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 639798, Singapore.
Han ZouMARS Lab, School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 639798, Singapore.
Jianfei YangMARS Lab, School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 639798, Singapore.

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Abstract

Large language models (LLMs) excel in textual tasks but often struggle with physical-world reasoning tasks. Inspired by human cognition-where perception is fundamental to reasoning-we explore augmenting LLMs with enhanced perception abilities using Internet of Things (IoT) data and pertinent knowledge. In this work, we systematically study LLMs' capability to address IoT-sensory tasks, by augmenting their perception and knowledge base, and then propose a unified framework, IoT-LLM, to enhance such capability. In IoT-LLM, we customize three steps: preprocessing IoT data into suitable formats, expanding LLMs' knowledge via IoT-oriented retrieval-augmented generation, and activating LLMs' commonsense knowledge through chain-of-thought prompting. We design a benchmark comprising five real-world tasks with varying data types and reasoning complexities to evaluate the performance of IoT-LLM. Experimental results reveal that IoT-LLM significantly improves the performance of IoT-sensory task reasoning of LLMs, with models such as GPT-4o-mini showing a 49.4% average improvement over previous methods.

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agentic AIInternet of Thingslarge language modelsLLM reasoningphysical AI

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PMID41583982
PMCPMC12827756

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