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The use of WiFi signals to sense the physical environment is gaining popularity, with some common applications being motion detection and transmitter localization. Standard-compliant WiFi provides a cost effective, easy and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Florian Euchner , Stephan ten Brink

In this article, we put forward the mobile crowd sensing paradigm based on ubiquitous wearable devices carried by human users. The key challenge for mass user involvement into prospective urban crowd sending applications, such as monitoring…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-21 Olga Galinina , Konstantin Mikhaylov , Kaibin Huang , Sergey Andreev , Yevgeni Koucheryavy

Having been studied for more than a decade, Wi-Fi human sensing still faces a major challenge in the presence of multiple persons, simply because the limited bandwidth of Wi-Fi fails to provide a sufficient range resolution to physically…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Jingzhi Hu , Tianyue Zheng , Zhe Chen , Hongbo Wang , Jun Luo

Future sixth-generation (6G) networks are envisioned to support intelligent applications across various vertical scenarios, which have stringent requirements on high-precision sensing as well as ultra-low-latency data processing and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Yuanhao Cui , Xiaowen Cao , Guangxu Zhu , Jiali Nie , Jie Xu

To ensure an unprecedented degree of flexibility, next-generation Industry 4.0/5.0 production plants increasingly rely on mobile devices, e.g., autonomous mobile robots and wearables. In these cases, a major requirement is getting rid of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Pietro Chiavassa , Stefano Scanzio , Gianluca Cena

While various sensors have been deployed to monitor vehicular flows, sensing pedestrian movement is still nascent. Yet walking is a significant mode of travel in many cities, especially those in Europe, Africa, and Asia. Understanding…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-11 Chaeyeon Han , Pavan Seshadri , Yiwei Ding , Noah Posner , Bon Woo Koo , Animesh Agrawal , Alexander Lerch , Subhrajit Guhathakurta

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) have flexible and exceptional performance in manipulating electromagnetic waves and customizing wireless channels. These capabilities enable them to provide a plethora of valuable activity-related…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-15 Xinyu Li , Jian Wei You , Ze Gu , Qian Ma , Long Chen , Jingyuan Zhang , Shi Jin , Tie Jun Cui

Human activity detection has seen a tremendous growth in the last decade playing a major role in the field of pervasive computing. This emerging popularity can be attributed to its myriad of real-life applications primarily dealing with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-10-20 Jitenkumar Babubhai Rana , Rashmi Shetty , Tanya Jha

WiFi-based sensing has aroused immense attention over recent years. The rationale is that the signal fluctuations caused by humans carry the information of human behavior which can be extracted from the channel state information of WiFi.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Xie Zhang , Chengpei Tang , Yasong An , Kang Yin

Sensing will be a key technology in 6G networks, enabling a plethora of new sensing-enabled use cases. Some of the use cases relate to deployments over a wide physical area that needs to be sensed by multiple sensing sources at different…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Filipe Conceicao , Filipe B. Teixeira , Luis M. Pessoa , Sebastian Robitzsch

Smartphone apps provide a vitally important opportunity for monitoring human mobility, human experience of ubiquitous information aids, and human activity in our increasingly well-instrumented spaces. As wireless data capabilities move…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-06-22 Scott Kirkpatrick , Ron Bekkerman , Adi Zmirli , Francesco Malandrino

An increasingly important requirement for many novel applications is sensing the positions of people, equipment, etc. GPS technology has proven itself as a successfull technology for positioning in outdoor environments but indoor no…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2010-04-28 Mikkel Baun Kjærgaard

The vast proliferation of sensor devices and Internet of Things enables the applications of sensor-based activity recognition. However, there exist substantial challenges that could influence the performance of the recognition system in…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-01-25 Kaixuan Chen , Dalin Zhang , Lina Yao , Bin Guo , Zhiwen Yu , Yunhao Liu

Wearable devices are transforming computing and the human-computer interaction and they are a primary means for motion recognition of reflexive systems. We review basic wearable deployments and their open wireless communications. An…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2017-05-10 Shivram Tabibu

Networks of multiple radars are typically used for improving the coverage and tracking accuracy. Recently, such networks have facilitated deployment of commercial radars for civilian applications such as healthcare, gesture recognition,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-07 S. Hamed Javadi , Alfonso Farina

Wireless Communication is an application of science and technology that has come to be vital for modern existence. From the early radio and telephone to current devices such as mobile phones and laptops, accessing the global network has…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-05-06 Ibrahim AlShourbaji

This article is a position paper which introduces the paradigm of ``Massive Wireless Human Sensing'', i.e. an infrastructure for wireless human sensing based on a plethora of heterogeneous wireless communication signals. More specifically,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Mauro De Sanctis

This paper presents a method for continuous indoor-outdoor environment detection on mobile devices based solely on WiFi fingerprints. Detection of indoor outdoor switching is an important part of identifying a user's context, and it…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-05 Guy Shtar , Bracha Shapira , Lior Rokach

Counting the number of people inside a building, from outside and without entering the building, is crucial for many applications. In this paper, we are interested in counting the total number of people walking inside a building (or in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2017-11-17 Saandeep Depatla , Yasamin Mostofi

A growing number of wearable devices is becoming increasingly non-invasive, readily available, and versatile for measuring different physiological signals. This renders them ideal for inferring the emotional states of their users. Despite…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-08-11 Weiwei Jiang , Kangning Yang , Maximiliane Windl , Francesco Chiossi , Benjamin Tag , Sven Mayer , Zhanna Sarsenbayeva