aspg-18-4540-1794333137 20261110175217 American Scientific Publishing Group admin@americaspg.com American Scientific Publishing Group Journal of Intelligent Systems and Internet of Things JISIoT 2769-786X 2690-6791 2027 19 1 Firas Zobary School of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China IoT intrusion-detection studies often treat a benchmark as adequate once it is large, recent, and widely used. That assumption can fail. This study audits five public IoT and IIoT security benchmarks—CICIoT2023, Edge-IIoTset, ToN-IoT, BoT-IoT, and IoT-23—from their published class populations and introduces no synthetic classifier results; the audit combines Shannon entropy, Hill diversity, Simpson concentration, Gini inequality, rank-frequency tail fitting, rare-class observation probability, Wilson uncertainty, and a constrained power-tempered sampling model. Across the five corpora, record counts range from 461,043 to 73,370,443, normalized entropy from 0.421 to 0.600, and effective Shannon diversity from 2.20 to 3.98 classes. Size is a poor proxy for label adequacy. IoT-23 is the clearest case: its 6.05 million records include a singleton class, so a random 1% sample has only about a 1%probability of observing that label, while the worst-case Wilson half-width for a class-conditioned proportion is 0.445. We then define qi(τ) = piτ /∑k pτk and prove that its entropy is non-increasing in τ; at a 1% training budget with a target of 25 expected observations in the rarest class, the minimum-flattening exponent is 1.000 for CICIoT2023, 0.855 for Edge-IIoTset, 0.807 for ToN-IoT, 0.954 for BoT-IoT, and 0.450 for IoT-23. The last case needs an approximately 2,500-fold uplift of the singleton label. Such an uplift changes training exposure to one observation; it cannot create independent evidence. The resulting audit protocol therefore separates training rebalancing from evaluation validity and gives quantitative checks that can be applied before IoT benchmark results are interpreted as class-wide security evidence. 2027 35 46 4540 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 10.54216/JISIoT.190103 https://americaspg.com/journal/18/article/4540 https://americaspg.com/storage/articles/manuscripts/01M70X698V8W70C4SD5GR6YGBN.pdf