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Topic: Detecting people/obstacles with Wi-Fi

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So, I've been trying to detect where in my house I am by reading my RSSIs signals, but there are two problems: I need my phone with me all the time and it's not that accurate.

I've been reading a lot about people reading Wi-Fi signals and making possible to detect if someone walks in the room, or room presence by the distortion people create on the Wi-Fi signals. Needs to be trained, obviously.

How is this done? Is it possible with an OpenWRT router? Or do I need more sophisticated hardware?

Here is an article of a recent work of this: http://motherboard.vice.com/read/wifi-s … body-shape

Thank you in advance.

frietpan

Max Hopper wrote:

frietpan

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It's not a serious source, see the tags of that article and the rest of "articles" of that web. If you have read a lot about that issue, please share a better url.

I don't know if it's possible, but in that case, you will need a lot of routers around house to detect that. It's much more easy use webcams and Computer Vision software like OpenCV.

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