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The only real practical example is fall detection, what's the real purpose of this?
Or, you know, if a cop wants to stalk their ex-gf, or an isp tech support nerd wants to stalk a customer. Or any script kiddie or petty criminal can get hold of your wifi password or drop his own AP in your house.
Nothing to see here. I mean, what could possibly go wrong?
The only real practical example is fall detection, what's the real purpose of this?
I worked briefly for a company working on WiFi sensing, and besides fall detection, nobody could give a compelling use case. When pressed to come up with a motivating vision, the big idea was lights turning on automatically when you enter a room. I guess? Like a lot of R&D, it seemed a solution in search of a problem.
[1]: https://www.linksys.com/us/support-article?articleNum=317804
[2]: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20171114005542/en/Nex...
I agree with other comments that question the ratio of benefit vs. risk. But I’m an old fogey who feels similarly about other “smart” home devices.
This seems primarily about providing tracking capabilities to operators whereas ToF provides tracking to the people who are actually trying to do positioning. The privacy implications are worrying.
Some WiFi systems [1] [2] already offer sensing capabilities for home security. [1]: https://www.linksys.com/us/support-article?articleNum=317804 [2]: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20171114005542/en/Nex... I agree with other comments that question the ratio of benefit vs. risk. But I’m an old fogey who feels similarly about other “smart” home devices.
But there's a big difference in custom firmware used in a few products and IEEE standardization in every new WiFi access point.
We need more funding for countermeasures, https://ans.unibs.it/projects/csi-murder/
> Imagine that someone wants to illegally track the position of a person inside a laboratory, for instance to measure how much time is spent doing different activities at different desks, as depicted in the upper picture. How much effective can this attack be? ... With CSI-MURDER, the localization becomes impossible because results will seem random, thus preserving the person privacy without destroying Wi-Fi communications.
400+ (!) papers on wireless sensing, over the last decade https://dhalperi.github.io/linux-80211n-csitool/ & https://groups.csail.mit.edu/netmit/sFFT/soda_paper.pdf & https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/103715
The only real practical example is fall detection, what's the real purpose of this?
Who is actually asking for this? It can't be for consumers just wanting to use the internet right? I don't get it.
It's most probably meant for opportunistic sensing in industrial environments, where it might become quite useful. It's not something you're going to use at home.
The only real practical example is fall detection, what's the real purpose of this?
I worked briefly for a company working on WiFi sensing, and besides fall detection, nobody could give a compelling use case. When pressed to come up with a motivating vision, the big idea was lights turning on automatically when you enter a room. I guess? Like a lot of R&D, it seemed a solution in search of a problem.