Sambit Kumar Mishra presented on Wi-Vi (wireless vision) technology, which uses Wi-Fi signals to capture moving objects behind walls. Wi-Vi relies on a 3 antenna device that transmits identical signals from two antennas, while receiving interference at the third antenna. This allows it to detect human movement by canceling static reflections from walls and furniture. Some challenges are flash effects from walls and tracking complex human motion. Wi-Vi overcomes these by transmitting signals that destructively interfere for static objects but not moving humans. It has advantages like low-cost use of existing Wi-Fi hardware and extending vision capabilities, but limitations include low resolution and short detection ranges.
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Introduction
The history of WI-VI lies in the campus of MIT.
It was developed by Professor Dina Katabi and her graduate
student Fadel Atib.
Wi-Vi stands for wireless vision.
It captures moving objects behind the wall.
Device uses typically Wi-Fi hardware devices.
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Working
Wi-Vi is essentially a 3 antenna MIMO device: two of the
antenna are used for transmitting and one is used for receiving.
Wi-Vi relies on simple 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi hardware radio.
Simply this can be decoded on handheld device.
Transmitting signals are low power Wi-Fi signals
The two antennas transmit almost identical signals, except
the second antenna’s signal is inverse of the first, resulting in
interference.
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Challenges
The major challenges faced are
1.Flash effect
2.Tracking of human movement
Due to the obstructions and intermediate object it is essential to
generate more sharper output rays.
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Flash Effect:
When you take a device point it at a wall and transmit Wi-Fi signals, a huge
amount of reflection is going to come the wall itself.
Tracking human movement:
When we get reflections from behind the wall, we get reflections from
everything in the environment: the chairs, tables etc. How can we tease out
the person’s reflections from all these reflections? And once we do that, how
can we track a person based on these reflections.
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Method used to overcome the challenges
Transmit two waves that cancel each other when they reflect off
the static object but not the moving object.
Wall is Static Disappears
People tend Detectable
to move
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Transmit
antenna
Receive antenna
x
αx
Eliminating the wall’s Reflection
x
αx
α= -h1/h2
static objects(wall,
furniture, etc) have
constant channels.
Y=h1x+h2(-h1/h2)x=0
people move, therefore their
channel change.
Y=h1’x+h2’(-h1/h2)x ≠ 0
Y=h1x+h2αx
h1
h2
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Tracking Reflection
Reflection from human behaves like it is the
source.
Antenna used to trace a radio frequency
source.
We can find the direction of the signal
movement by steering the beam of antennas.
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Advantages
Wi-Vi can perform through wall imaging without access to any device on
other side of wall.
Wi-Vi employs signals whose wavelengths are 12.5 cm.
Extend human vision beyond the visible electromagnetic range, allowing us
to detect
objects in the dark or in smoke.
Wi-Vi requires only few MHz of bandwidth and operates in the same range
as Wi-Fi.
It operates in ISM band.
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Limitations
Display has very low resolution.
We can’t detect humans behind concrete walls thicker than 8”.
To achieve a narrow beam the human needs to move by about 4
wavelengths(i.e., about 50 cm).
Short range of communication is possible.
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Conclusion
Wi-Vi or wireless vision technology is the simplest evolution for
communication.
Rather than RADARS and old measures, it can be afforded simply and cheaply.
Its operation in Ism band makes it easily accessible to public without any
specially built transmitting devices.
Hence in most ways, it makes a sense that Wi-Vi technology is one further step
in the fields of electronics and has the most scope of improvements and
applications an far considered.
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