IEEE Invited talk: ‘Sensorless sensing’: wireless networks as human context sensors

[Qing....@csiro.au]

Hi All,

The IEEE Queensland Engineering in Medicine and Biology Chapter cordially invite you for a talk on Wireless networks as human context sensors, by A/Professor Neal Patwari from University of Utah, on Monday June 27th 2016 at 2pm at Australian eHealth Research Center at Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital campus. 

Agenda

13:50 ~ 14:00:  Welcome and Introduction;

14:00 ~ 14:40:  Presentation by A/Prof Neal Patwari `Sensorless sensing': wireless networks as human context sensors;

14:40 ~ 15:00:  Q/A and Discussions;

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We hope to see you all at the event.

Topic: 

‘Sensorless sensing’: wireless networks as human context sensors

Standard radio transceivers make radio channel measurements which change due to the movements of people; thus a deployed wireless network can be used as a “sensorless sensor” to estimate the locations, activities, and gestures of people in the area in which the devices are deployed. The term was coined in 2006 by Woyach, Puccinelli, and Haenggi to describe how a wireless sensor network serves as a sensor even if no specific sensors are attached to the wireless devices. The area is also referred to as “device-free” because the people being sensed carry no radio device. In the past decade of sensorless sensing, a variety of experimental research has shown that people can be located with sub-meter accuracies, their activities, poses, and gestures they are performing can be distinguished from each other, and their breathing rate estimated. The results have application in health care, security, logistics, and in general in context aware computing. In this talk, I describe the progress that has been made in exploiting channel measurements for human context sensing and the significant open challenges that remain.

Biography:

Neal Patwari received the B.S. (1997) and M.S. (1999) degrees from Virginia Tech, and the Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (2005), all in Electrical Engineering. He was a research engineer in Motorola Labs, Florida, between 1999 and 2001. Since 2006, he has been at the University of Utah, where he is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, with an adjunct appointment in the School of Computing. He directs the Sensing and Processing Across Networks (SPAN) Lab, which performs research at the intersection of statistical signal processing and wireless networking. Neal is the Director of Research at Xandem, a RF sensing technology company. His research interests are in radio channel signal processing, in which radio channel measurements are used to benefit security, networking, and localization applications. He received the NSF CAREER Award in 2008, the 2009 IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Magazine Paper Award, the 2011 University of Utah Early Career Teaching Award, and best paper awards at SenseApp 2012 and IPSN 2014.

regards,

Qing

Dr Qing Zhang

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Health and Biosecurity

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