IoT Miner: Intelligent Extraction of Event Logs from Sensor Data for Process Mining

Abstract: This paper presents IoT Miner, a novel framework for automatically creating high-level event logs from raw industrial sensor data to support process mining. In many real-world settings, such as mining or manufacturing, standard event logs are unavailable, and sensor data lacks the structure and semantics needed for analysis. IoT Miner addresses this gap using a four-stage pipeline: data preprocessing, unsupervised clustering, LLM-based labeling, and event log construction. A key innovation is the use of LLMs to generate meaningful activity labels from cluster statistics, guided by domain-specific prompts. We evaluate the approach on sensor data from a Load-Haul-Dump (LHD) mining machine and introduce a new metric, Similarity-Weighted Accuracy, to assess labeling quality. Results show that richer prompts lead to more accurate and consistent labels. By combining AI with domain-aware data processing, IoT Miner offers a scalable and interpretable method for generating event logs from IoT data, enabling process mining in settings where traditional logs are missing.