Comment by freyr
4 years ago
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.
They've been making that tech for years, every office and school classroom I've been to in the last 10 years has that now. This is just another stupid shot in the dark. Maybe someday someone will actually find a useful purpose. We are limited by what we can't even imagine so there's always hope but until then, I'll let those with deep pockets spend the energy trying to find a good use for it.
> lights turning on automatically when you enter a room
Was this really it? Or did they have some use-case not currently covered by motion sensors?
I can see some potential use for security (cheap REX sensors can be easily tricked, allowing unauthorized access into secure areas). The fix is obvious (stop cheaping out on your REX sensors) but I can envision someone trying to bill wifi sensing as the hip new solution for REX systems.
Yeah seemed like a replacement for other motion sensing... but then how localized can this actually be?