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Wi-Senser: Contactless Head Movement Detection During Sleep Utilizing WiFi Signals

Version 1 : Received: 30 May 2023 / Approved: 30 May 2023 / Online: 30 May 2023 (13:05:29 CEST)

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Fang, Y.; Liu, W.; Zhang, S. Wi-Senser: Contactless Head Movement Detection during Sleep Utilizing WiFi Signals. Appl. Sci. 2023, 13, 7572. Fang, Y.; Liu, W.; Zhang, S. Wi-Senser: Contactless Head Movement Detection during Sleep Utilizing WiFi Signals. Appl. Sci. 2023, 13, 7572.

Abstract

Detecting human head movement during sleep is important as it can help doctor to access some physical or mental health problems like infantile eczema, calcium deficiency, insomnia, anxiety disorder and even Parkinson’s disease, and provide useful clues for scientific diagnosing. To obtain the information of sleep head movement, current solutions either use the camera or require the user to wear intrusive sensors to collect the image or motion data. However, the vision-based schemes depend on the environmental light conditions and also bring privacy concerns. Some people including the elderly and infant may be reluctant to wear wearable devices during sleep. In this paper, we propose a novel system called Wi-Senser to address the issues mentioned above. Our Wi-Senser directly reuses the existing WiFi infrastructure and exploits the fine-grained channel state information (CSI) of WiFi signals to capture the minute human head movement during sleep without attaching any sensors to the human body. We design and implement our system with just one commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) router and one laptop equipped with Intel 5300 network interface card (NIC). We evaluate the performance of Wi-Senser with 6 volunteers (4 adults and 2 children). Extensive experiments demonstrate that Wi-Senser can achieve a 98.5% accuracy for head movement detection during sleep. Wi-Senser provides a new solution for achieving noninvasive, continuous and accurate human minute movement detection without any additional cost.

Keywords

Contactless; head movement; health monitoring; WiFi CSI; internet of things

Subject

Computer Science and Mathematics, Computer Networks and Communications

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