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WiFi sensing technology has shown superiority in smart homes among various sensors for its cost-effective and privacy-preserving merits. It is empowered by Channel State Information (CSI) extracted from WiFi signals and advanced machine…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Jianfei Yang , Xinyan Chen , Han Zou , Dazhuo Wang , Lihua Xie

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

Device-free Wi-Fi sensing has numerous benefits in practical settings, as it eliminates the requirement for dedicated sensing devices and can be accomplished using current low-cost Wi-Fi devices. With the development of Wi-Fi standards,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-16 Wenbo Ding , Yang Li , Dongsheng Wang , Bin Zhao , Yunrong Zhu , Yibo Zhang , Yumeng Miao

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

Indoor localization is the process of determining the location of a person or object inside a building. Potential usage of indoor localization includes navigation, personalization, safety and security, and asset tracking. Commonly used…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-14 Rahul Vishwakarma , Rucha Bhalchandra Joshi , Subhankar Mishra

The paper targets the problem of human motion detection using Wireless Local Area Network devices (WiFi) equipped with pattern reconfigurable antennas. Motion sensing is obtained by monitoring the body-induced alterations of the ambient…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Marco Santoboni , Riccardo Bersan , Stefano Savazzi , Alberto Zecchin , Vittorio Rampa Daniele Piazza

Proximity detection in indoor environments based on WiFi signals has gained significant attention in recent years. Existing works rely on the dynamic signal reflections and their extracted features are dependent on motion strength. To…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-01 Yuqian Hu , Guozhen Zhu , Beibei Wang , K. J. Ray Liu

Recent research has shown that human motions and positions can be recognized through WiFi signals. The key intuition is that different motions and positions introduce different multi-path distortions in WiFi signals and generate different…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-10-30 Heju Li , Xukai Chen , Haohua Du , Xin He , Jianwei Qian , Peng-Jun Wan , Panlong Yang

This paper proposes passive WiFi indoor localization. Instead of using WiFi signals received by mobile devices as fingerprints, we use signals received by routers to locate the mobile carrier. Consequently, software installation on the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-04 Minh Tu Hoang , Brosnan Yuen , Kai Ren , Ahmed Elmoogy , Xiaodai Dong , Tao Lu , Hung Le Nguyen Robert Westendorp , Kishore Reddy Tarimala

Currently there is no standard indoor positioning system, similar to outdoor GPS. However, WiFi signals have been used in a large number of proposals to achieve the above positioning, many of which use machine learning to do so. But what…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-09 Vladimir Bellavista-Parent , Joaquín Torres-Sospedra , Antoni Perez-Navarro

Indoor localization has recently witnessed an increase in interest, due to the potential wide range of services it can provide by leveraging Internet of Things (IoT), and ubiquitous connectivity. Different techniques, wireless technologies…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-01-18 Faheem Zafari , Athanasios Gkelias , Kin Leung

Wireless networks are a common place nowadays and almost all of the modern devices support wireless communication in some form. These networks differ from more traditional computing systems due to the ad-hoc and spontaneous nature of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2010-07-15 Yasir Arfat Malkani , Lachhman Das Dhomeja

Privacy issues related to video camera feeds have led to a growing need for suitable alternatives that provide functionalities such as user authentication, activity classification and tracking in a noninvasive manner. Existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Vinoj Jayasundara , Hirunima Jayasekara , Tharaka Samarasinghe , Kasun T. Hemachandra

In the Wireless Localization Matching Problem (WLMP) the challenge is to match pieces of equipment with a set of candidate locations based on wireless signal measurements taken by the pieces of equipment. This challenge is complicated by…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-15 Amin Ghafourian , Orestis Georgiou , Edmund Barter , Thilo Gross

Recent years have witnessed the rapid development in the research topic of WiFi sensing that automatically senses human with commercial WiFi devices. This work falls into two major categories, i.e., the activity recognition and the indoor…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-07-22 Fei Wang , Jianwei Feng , Yinliang Zhao , Xiaobin Zhang , Shiyuan Zhang , Jinsong Han

Contrasting to advances in street/outdoor navigation, wall mounted maps and signs continue to be the primary reference indoor navigation in hospitals, malls, museums, etc. The proliferation of mobile devices and the growing demand for…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-05-23 Sagar V. Ramani , Yagnik N. Tank

The advancement of next-generation Wi-Fi technology heavily relies on sensing capabilities, which play a pivotal role in enabling sophisticated applications. In response to the growing demand for large-scale deployments, contemporary Wi-Fi…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-29 Yuxuan Liu , Chiya Zhang , Yifeng Yuan , Chunlong He , Weizheng Zhang , Gaojie Chen

This paper introduces the first wireless gesture recognition system that operates using existingWi-Fi signals and devices. To achieve this, we first identify limitations of existing wireless gesture recognition approaches that limit their…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2014-11-21 Rajalakshmi Nandakumar , Bryce Kellogg , Shyamnath Gollakota

Smart meters are of the basic elements in the so-called Smart Grid. These devices, connected to the Internet, keep bidirectional communication with other devices in the Smart Grid structure to allow remote readings and maintenance. As any…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Rebeca P. Díaz Redondo , Ana Fernández Vilas , Gabriel Fernández dos Reis

In recent years, there has been an increasing number of information technologies utilized in buildings to advance the idea of "smart buildings". Among various potential techniques, the use of Wi-Fi based indoor positioning allows to locate…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-02-25 Qian Huang , Yuanzhi Zhang , Zhenhao Ge , Chao Lu