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. 2023;38(1):25-63.
doi: 10.1007/s11390-023-3073-5. Epub 2023 Jan 31.

Ubiquitous WiFi and Acoustic Sensing: Principles, Technologies, and Applications

Jia-Ling Huang  1 , Yun-Shu Wang  1 , Yong-Pan Zou  1 , Kai-Shun Wu  1 , Lionel Ming-Shuan Ni  2   3
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Ubiquitous WiFi and Acoustic Sensing: Principles, Technologies, and Applications

Jia-Ling Huang et al. J Comput Sci Technol. 2023.

Abstract

With the increasing pervasiveness of mobile devices such as smartphones, smart TVs, and wearables, smart sensing, transforming the physical world into digital information based on various sensing medias, has drawn researchers' great attention. Among different sensing medias, WiFi and acoustic signals stand out due to their ubiquity and zero hardware cost. Based on different basic principles, researchers have proposed different technologies for sensing applications with WiFi and acoustic signals covering human activity recognition, motion tracking, indoor localization, health monitoring, and the like. To enable readers to get a comprehensive understanding of ubiquitous wireless sensing, we conduct a survey of existing work to introduce their underlying principles, proposed technologies, and practical applications. Besides we also discuss some open issues of this research area. Our survey reals that as a promising research direction, WiFi and acoustic sensing technologies can bring about fancy applications, but still have limitations in hardware restriction, robustness, and applicability.

Supplementary information: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11390-023-3073-5.

Keywords: WiFi sensing; acoustic sensing; human activity recognition; human-computer interaction.

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