This seminar course introduces graduate students and senior undergraduates in EE/CS towireless sensing. We will explore various signals and sensing modalities, including radio frequency, mmWave, acoustics, and visible light. We will cover fundamental principles such as battery-free computing, wireless localization, sensor security, health sensing, and backscatter networking. In this class, we will examine wireless sensing applications such as seeing through walls, contactless vital sign monitoring, smart homes, ocean IoT, and smart agriculture, as well as multi-modal sensing for augmented reality headsets and robotics.
Lectures will introduce fundamental technologies through research paper discussions and readings. Additionally, students will undertake a semester-long research project.
Topics include the principles, practices, and emerging applications in:
Positioning technologies, including GPS, WiFi and cellular localization
Wireless networking, including BLE, WiFi, Zigbee, as well as multi-hop and store-and-forward (“muling”)
Resource constraints, including power, bandwidth, and storage
Inertial sensing, including accelerometers, gyroscopes, IMUs, dead-reckoning
Other types of sensors, e.g., microphones and cameras
Application studies
Embedded hardware and software architecture
Embedded system security
iOS APIs for accessing various sensing and wireless networking technologies