Wi-Fi sensing: applications and challenges

Abstract

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 study presents a survey on different applications of Wi-Fi-based sensing systems such as elderly people monitoring, activity classification, gesture recognition, people counting, through the wall sensing, behind the corner sensing, and many other applications. The challenges and interesting future directions are also highlighted.

Keywords

• gesture recognition
• wireless lan
• geriatrics
• interesting future directions
• corner sensing
• wall sensing
• elderly people
• wi-fi-based
• sensing technologies
• appealing option
• outdoor sensing applications
• indoor sensing applications
• strong potentials
• wi-fi technology
• wi-fi sensing