Due to the severe multipath effect, no satisfactory device-free methods have ever been found for indoor speed estimation problem, especially in non-line-of-sight scenarios, where the direct path between the source and observer is blocked. In this paper, we present WiSpeed, a universal low-complexity indoor speed estimation system leveraging radio signals, such as commercial WiFi, LTE, 5G, etc., which can work in both device-free and device-based situations. By exploiting the statistical theory of electromagnetic waves, we establish a link between the autocorrelation function of the physical layer channel state information and the speed of a moving object, which lays the foundation of WiSpeed. WiSpeed differs from the other schemes requiring strong line-of-sight conditions between the source and observer in that it embraces the rich-scattering environment typical for indoors to facilitate highly accurate speed estimation. Moreover, as a calibration-free system, WiSpeed saves the users' efforts from large-scale training and fine-tuning of system parameters. In addition, WiSpeed could extract the stride length as well as detect abnormal activities such as falling down, a major threat to seniors that leads to a large number of fatalities every year. Extensive experiments show that WiSpeed achieves a mean absolute percentage error of 4.85 for device-free human walking speed estimation and 4.62 for device-based speed estimation, and a detection rate of 95 without false alarms for fall detection.
Existing works on device-free motion sensing techniques using commercial WiFi include gesture recognition @cite_30 @cite_9 @cite_2 @cite_22 @cite_20 , human activity recognition @cite_1 @cite_25 @cite_7 , motion tracing @cite_4 @cite_3 , passive localization @cite_15 @cite_29 , vital signal estimation @cite_16 , indoor event detection @cite_32 and so on. These approaches are built upon the phenomenon that human motions inevitably distort the WiFi signal and can be recorded by WiFi receivers for further analysis. In terms of the principles, these works can be divided into two categories: learning based and ray-tracing based. Details of the two categories are elaborated below.
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In this paper, we propose WifiU, which uses commercial WiFi devices to capture fine-grained gait patterns to recognize humans. The intuition is that due to the differences in gaits of different people, the WiFi signal reflected by a walking human generates unique variations in the Channel State Information (CSI) on the WiFi receiver. To profile human movement using CSI, we use signal processing techniques to generate spectrograms from CSI measurements so that the resulting spectrograms are similar to those generated by specifically designed Doppler radars. To extract features from spectrograms that best characterize the walking pattern, we perform autocorrelation on the torso reflection to remove imperfection in spectrograms. We evaluated WifiU on a dataset with 2,800 gait instances collected from 50 human subjects walking in a room with an area of 50 square meters. Experimental results show that WifiU achieves top-1, top-2, and top-3 recognition accuracies of 79.28 , 89.52 , and 93.05 , respectively. Various pioneering approaches have been proposed for Wi-Fi-based sensing, which usually employ learning-based techniques to seek appropriate statistical features, yet do not support precise tracking without prior training. Thus to advance passive sensing, the ability to track fine-grained human mobility information acts as a key enabler. In this paper, we propose Widar, a Wi-Fi-based tracking system that simultaneously estimates a human's moving velocity (both speed and direction) and location at a decimeter level. Instead of applying statistical learning techniques, Widar builds a theoretical model that geometrically quantifies the relationships between CSI dynamics and the user's location and velocity. On this basis, we propose novel techniques to identify frequency components related to human motion from noisy CSI readings and then derive a user's location in addition to velocity. We implement Widar on commercial Wi-Fi devices and validate its performance in real environments. Our results show that Widar achieves decimeter-level accuracy, with a median location error of 25 cm given initial positions and 38 cm without them and a median relative velocity error of 13 . Background: We investigate direct use of 802.15.4 radio signal strength indication (RSSI) for human activity recognition when 1) a user carries a wireless node (device-bound) and when 2) a user moves in the wireless sensor net (WSN) without a WSN node (device-free). We investigate recognition feasibility in respect to network topology, subject and room geometry (door open, half, closed). Methods: In a 2 person office room 8 wireless nodes are installed in a 3D topology. Two subjects are outfitted with a sensor node on the hip. Acceleration and RSSI are recorded while subject performs 6 different activities or room is empty. We apply machine learning for analysis and compare our results to acceleration data. Results: 10-fold cross-validation with all nodes gives accuracies of 0.896 (device-bound), 0.894 (device-free) and 0.88 (accelerometer). Topology investigation reveals that similar accuracies may be reached with only 5 (device-bound) or 4 (device-free) selected nodes. Applying trained data from one subject to the other and vice-versa shows higher recognition difference on RSSI than on acceleration. Changing of door state has smaller effect on both systems than subject change; with least impact when door is closed. Conclusion: 802.15.4 RSSI suited for activity recognition. 3D topology is helpful in respect to type of activities. Discrimination of subjects seems possible. Practical systems must adapt no only to long-term environmental dispersion but consider typical geometric changes. Adaptable, robust recognition models must be developed. This paper demonstrates that it is possible to leverage WiFi signals from commodity mobile devices to enable hands-free drawing in the air. While prior solutions require the user to hold a wireless transmitter, or require custom wireless hardware, or can only determine a pre-defined set of hand gestures, this paper introduces WiDraw, the first hand motion tracking system using commodity WiFi cards, and without any user wearables. WiDraw harnesses the Angle-of-Arrival values of incoming wireless signals at the mobile device to track the user's hand trajectory. We utilize the intuition that whenever the user's hand occludes a signal coming from a certain direction, the signal strength of the angle representing the same direction will experience a drop. Our software prototype using commodity wireless cards can track the user's hand with a median error lower than 5 cm. We use WiDraw to implement an in-air handwriting application that allows the user to draw letters, words, and sentences, and achieves a mean word recognition accuracy of 91 .