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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

Large available bandwidth in 60\,GHz band promises very high data rates -- in the order of Gb/s. However, high free-space path loss makes it necessary to employ beamforming capable directional antennas. When beamforming is used, the links…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-03-16 A. W. Doff , Kishor Chandra , R. Venkatesha Prasad

This paper examines the application of WiFi signals for real-world monitoring of daily activities in home healthcare scenarios. While the state-of-the-art of WiFi-based activity recognition is promising in lab environments, challenges arise…

We study six months of human mobility data, including WiFi and GPS traces recorded with high temporal resolution, and find that time series of WiFi scans contain a strong latent location signal. In fact, due to inherent stability and low…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2015-08-24 Piotr Sapiezynski , Arkadiusz Stopczynski , Radu Gatej , Sune Lehmann

Wi-Fi sensing detects human motions and activities by analysing the channel state information (CSI) derived from Wi-Fi transmissions. However, the impact of variable transmission traffic, which dictates the effective sampling rate and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Guolin Yin , Junqing Zhang , Guanxiong Shen , Simon L. Cotton

Fine-grained person perception such as body segmentation and pose estimation has been achieved with many 2D and 3D sensors such as RGB/depth cameras, radars (e.g., RF-Pose) and LiDARs. These sensors capture 2D pixels or 3D point clouds of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Fei Wang , Sanping Zhou , Stanislav Panev , Jinsong Han , Dong Huang

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

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

Wi-Fi channel state information (CSI) has emerged as a plausible modality for sensing different human activities as a function of modulations in the wireless signal that travels between wireless devices. Until now, most research has taken a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-05 Mohammed Alloulah , Anton Isopoussu , Chulhong Min , Fahim Kawsar

Wireless Fidelity or Wi-Fi, has completely transfigured wireless networking by offering a smooth connection to the internet and networks, particularly when dealing with enclosed environments. As with the majority of wireless technology, it…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Aditya Mitra , Anisha Ghosh , Sibi Chakkaravarthy S , Devi Priya VS

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

In recent years WiFi became the primary source of information to locate a person or device indoor. Collecting RSSI values as reference measurements with known positions, known as WiFi fingerprinting, is commonly used in various positioning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Kahraman Kostas , Rabia Yasa Kostas , Francisco Zampella , Firas Alsehly

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

In this paper we develop the analytical framework for a novel Wireless signal-based Sensing capability for Robotics (WSR) by leveraging robots' mobility. It allows robots to primarily measure relative direction, or Angle-of-Arrival (AOA),…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Ninad Jadhav , Weiying Wang , Diana Zhang , Oussama Khatib , Swarun Kumar , Stephanie Gil

Wi-Fi sensing has been used to detect and track movements in an environment, resulting in the emergence of several innovative applications. Wi-Fi sensing can detect movement and locate objects by analyzing variations in the Wi-Fi signal due…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Anirudha Sahoo , Tanguy Ropitault , Steve Blandino , Nada Golmie

This paper presents a two-dimensional phase extraction system using passive WiFi sensing to monitor three basic elderly care activities including breathing rate, essential tremor and falls. Specifically, a WiFi signal is acquired through…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-04-04 U. M. Khan , Z. Kabir , S. A. Hassan

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

In the last years, several machine learning-based techniques have been proposed to monitor human movements from Wi-Fi channel readings. However, the development of domain-adaptive algorithms that robustly work across different environments…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-27 Francesca Meneghello , Nicolò Dal Fabbro , Domenico Garlisi , Ilenia Tinnirello , Michele Rossi

Wi-Fi technology has strong potentials in indoor and outdoor sensing applications, it has several important features which makes it an appealing option compared to other sensing technologies. This paper presents a survey on different…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-01-02 A. M. Khalili , Abdel-Hamid Soliman , Md Asaduzzaman , Alison Griffiths

Today's societies are enveloped in an ever-growing telecommunication infrastructure. This infrastructure offers important opportunities for sensing and recording a multitude of human behaviors. Human mobility patterns are a prominent…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2016-10-18 Piotr Sapiezynski , Arkadiusz Stopczynski , David Kofoed Wind , Jure Leskovec , Sune Lehmann