Comment by transpute

3 years ago

IEEE 802.11bf aims to standardize through-wall motion sensing for Wi-Fi 7 in 2024, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27121918#27133079

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pontifier  3 years ago

Sign me up for the security system. This seems like a total game changer if it's possible to do real human detection and tracking in a secure location.

  • transpute  3 years ago

    2012, https://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2012-07/seeing-thr...

    > The U.K. Ministry of Defence has funded a study to determine whether it could be used to scan buildings during urban warfare. With improvements, Woodbridge says, the device could become sensitive enough to pick up on subtle motions the ribcage makes during breathing, which would allow the radar to detect people who are standing or sitting still.

  • XorNot  3 years ago

    I have a weirder utility for it: occupancy sensing in rooms.

    If it can detect breathing of humans reliably, then it solves a huge problem in having home automation with automatic lighting - particularly in bathrooms. I've never had a decent bathroom occupancy sensor (they all end up wanting to detect fairly large motions) - the obvious solution is AI with a camera but for obvious reasons no, but if a couple of base stations can localize person positions to rooms in the house (and provide other services) then that kind of solves the whole issue!