The Sapienza computer scientists say Wi-Fi signals offer superior surveillance potential compared to cameras because they're not affected by light conditions, can penetrate walls and other obstacles, and they're more privacy-preserving than visual images.

[…] The Rome-based researchers who proposed WhoFi claim their technique makes accurate matches on the public NTU-Fi dataset up to 95.5 percent of the time when the deep neural network uses the transformer encoding architecture.

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[–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It is cool for home automation if you can turn it into a presence detection software (do not connect your Homeassistant to the internet though)

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    If all you need is presence detection then a motion sensor would be vastly more efficient.

    If you actually need identity detection, then maybe, but you'll still have to have a camera or detailed access logs to associate the interference signature with a known entity and at that point you may as well just put an RFID reader under the bowl you throw your keys into or use facial or gait detection.

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