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Residential occupancy detection has become an enabling technology in today's urbanized world for various smart home applications, such as building automation, energy management, and improved security and comfort. Digitalization of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Xinyu Liang , Hao Wang

This paper presents an occupancy-predicting control algorithm for heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems in buildings. It incorporates the building's thermal properties, local weather predictions, and a self-tuning…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2014-07-29 Justin R. Dobbs , Brandon M. Hencey

This work proposes a tool to estimate the interference between nodes and links in a live wireless network by passive monitoring of wireless traffic. This approach requires deploying multiple sniffers across the network to capture wireless…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-07-17 U Sinthuja , R Sridevi

Estimation problems in wireless sensor networks typically involve gathering and processing data from distributed sensors to infer the state of an environment at the fusion center. However, not all measurements contribute significantly to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-17 Chen Quan , Geethu Joseph , Nitin Jonathan Myers

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have been adopted as merely data producers for years. However, the data collected by WSNs can also be used to manage their operation and avoid unnecessary measurements that do not provide any new knowledge…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-07-13 Gabriel Martins Dias , Toni Adame , Boris Bellalta , Simon Oechsner

This paper presents a low-cost system architecture that has been proposed for automatically monitoring air quality indoors and continuously in real-time. The designed system is in pilot phase where 4 sensor nodes are deployed in indoor…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-12-13 Tareq Alhmiedat , Ghassan Samara

Wi-Fi technology has evolved from simple communication routers to sensing devices. Wi-Fi sensing leverages conventional Wi-Fi transmissions to extract and analyze channel state information (CSI) for applications like proximity detection,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-08 Ahmed Y. Radwan , Mustafa Yildirim , Navid Hasanzadeh , Hina Tabassum , Shahrokh Valaee

Occupancy prediction, aiming at predicting the occupancy status within voxelized 3D environment, is quickly gaining momentum within the autonomous driving community. Mainstream occupancy prediction works first discretize the 3D environment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Jiabao Wang , Zhaojiang Liu , Qiang Meng , Liujiang Yan , Ke Wang , Jie Yang , Wei Liu , Qibin Hou , Ming-Ming Cheng

Wi-Fi sensing has become an attractive option for non-invasive monitoring of human activities and vital signs. This paper explores the feasibility of using state-of-the-art commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) devices for Wi-Fi sensing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Jiuyu Liu , Yi Ma , Rahim Tafazolli

Occupancy prediction reconstructs 3D structures of surrounding environments. It provides detailed information for autonomous driving planning and navigation. However, most existing methods heavily rely on the LiDAR point clouds to generate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Chubin Zhang , Juncheng Yan , Yi Wei , Jiaxin Li , Li Liu , Yansong Tang , Yueqi Duan , Jiwen Lu

Human pose estimation is fundamental to intelligent perception in the Internet of Things (IoT), enabling applications ranging from smart healthcare to human-computer interaction. While WiFi-based methods have gained traction, they often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Yi Dao , Lankai Zhang , Hao Liu , Haiwei Zhang , Wenbo Wang

Time-of-flight, i.e., the time incurred by a signal to travel from transmitter to receiver, is perhaps the most intuitive way to measure distances using wireless signals. It is used in major positioning systems such as GPS, RADAR, and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-05-14 Deepak Vasisht , Swarun Kumar , Dina Katabi

With the number of communicating sensors linked to the Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem in-creasing dramatically, well-designed indoor light energy harvesting solutions are needed. The first step towards this development is to determine…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-04 Bastien Politi , Alain Foucaran , Nicolas Camara

Different technologies have been proposed to provide indoor localisation: magnetic field, bluetooth , WiFi, etc. Among them, WiFi is the one with the highest availability and highest accuracy. This fact allows for an ubiquitous accurate…

Indoor positioning plays a pivotal role in a wide range of applications, from smart homes to industrial automation. In this paper, we propose a comprehensive approach for accurate positioning in indoor environments through the integration…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Karamat Beigi , Hamed Shah-Mansouri

As elderly population grows, social and health care begin to face validation challenges, in-home monitoring is becoming a focus for professionals in the field. Governments urgently need to improve the quality of healthcare services at lower…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-22 Lingchao Guo , Zhaoming Lu , Shuang Zhou , Xiangming Wen , Zhihong He

The large increase in the number of Internet of Things (IoT) devices have revolutionised the way data is processed, which added to the current trend from cloud to edge computing has resulted in the need for efficient and reliable data…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Jose-Carlos Gamazo-Real , Raul Torres Fernandez , Adrian Murillo Armas

Beyond data communications, commercial-off-the-shelf Wi-Fi devices can be used to monitor human activities, track device locomotion, and sense the ambient environment. In particular, spatial beam attributes that are inherently available in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-19 Toshiaki Koike-Akino , Pu Wang , Ye Wang

Thanks to the ubiquitous deployment of Wi-Fi hotspots, channel state information (CSI)-based Wi-Fi sensing can unleash game-changing applications in many fields, such as healthcare, security, and entertainment. However, despite one decade…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Marco Cominelli , Francesco Gringoli , Francesco Restuccia

The development of low-cost sensors and novel calibration algorithms offer new opportunities to supplement existing regulatory networks to measure air pollutants at a high spatial resolution and at hourly and sub-hourly timescales. We use a…