DRK INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

ECE DEPARMENT

WI-VI TECHNOLOGY
SEEING through walls using WI-FI

UNDER THE GUIDANCE OF Presented by

MRs. SUREKHA Navya
(Asst.Prof) (17N71A0473)
 CONTENTS
 Introduction
 Challenges faced in designing Wi-Vi
 Flash Effect
 Tracking Human movements
 Method used to overcome the challenges.
 Implementation
 Principle
 Wi-vi setup &working
 Advantages and limitations
 Applications
 Results
 Future Scope & Conclusion
 WHAT IS WI-VI ?
 WI-VI is one of the most modern technology which modifies
the WI-FI technology to make the concept of wireless vision
possible.

 The main logic or idea is the tracking and manipulation of

reflection WI-FI signals

 It can hence be called as an adaption of radar

 -Wireless Device
-Captures moving
objects behind
the wall

- USER WI-FI -THROUGH WALL

SIGNALS IN ISM IMAGING
BAND(2.4Ghz)
-TYPICALLY WI-FI
WI-VI -RELATIVELY LOW
POWER
HARDWARE INTRODUCTION -LOW COST
-LOW BANDWIDTH

-TWO MODES OF
USE: -IT IS 3 ANTENNA
-IMAGE MOVING MIMO DEVICE
OBJECTS BEHIND -TWO TRANMITTING
THE WALL AND ONE RECEIVING
-GESTURE BASED ANTENNA
INTERFACE
KEY IDEA
Challenges Faced in Designing Wi-Vi

 Challenge 1:Flash Effect

 RF signals penetrate walls:

 Reflect off object on other side of wall

 Distinguish reflectors by their arrival times

 At low bandwidth :

 Wall reflection much stronger than reflections coming from behind the wall

 Flash effect :wall reflection saturates the ADC

Cont…

 Challenge 2: Identifying and tracking Humans

 Traditional system:-Array of Spaced Antennas
 Previous attempts to track moving targets through wall have done so using an array
od spaced antennas

 This would be too expensive and bulky

How Can We Elimination the Wall’s Reflection?
:-Wi-Vi uses interference nulling to cancel both the wall reflection the direct signal from
the transmitting to the receiving

Nulling to Remove the Flash

 MIMO system can pre-code their transmissions such that the signal received
at a particular antenna is cancelled
 This property can be tailored to eliminate the flash effect as well as direct
signal from the transmitting to the receiving antenna thereby enabling Wi-Vi
to capture the reflectionz from object of interest with minimal interference
 At a high level,WI-vi nulling procedure can be divided into three phases:
 *Initial nulling
 *Power boosting
 *Iterative nulling
IMPLEMENTION

Designed and sold by

Ettus Research

USRPs connect to a Comparatively

host computer inexpensive hardware
through a high-speed platform for software
USB or gigabit radio
Ethernet link,

USRP models also

integrate the general Commonly used by
functionality of a host research labs and
Product are open universities etc.
source computer with an
embedded processor
Priniciple

 Doppler effect is used in wi-vi similar to SONAR and RADAR.

 But less frequency is used compared to above two.
 WI-VI Setup & Working

 Any objects that the signals hit including the wall create identical
reflection ,they too are cancelling out by this nulling effect.
 Only those reflections that change between the two signals,such asthose
from a moving object,arrive back at the receiver.
 Advantages & Limitations
 Wi-Vi is relatively a low-power,low-
cost,low-bandwidth,and accessible to
average users.
 Wi-Vi requires only few MHz of
bandwidth operated in the same range
as WI-FI.it operates in ISM band .
 WI-VI emplys signals whose
wavelengths are 12.5 cm.
 Extend human vision beyond the
visible electromagnetic range,allowing
us to detect object in the dark or in
smoke
 Display has very low
resolution
 We cannot 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).
 Law Enforcement
APPLICATIONS  Emergency Situations

 Smart Sensing
APPLICATIONS  Intruder detection

 User interface design

 Gaming

This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-SA-NC

 WI-VI device pointed at a closed
room with 6’’hollw walls supported
by steel frams can distinguish
between0,1,2&3moving human in th
Detect movements behind room.computed over 80trials with
opaque 8,human subject.WI-VI achieves an
Structural obstructions accuracy of 100%

RESULTS OF
WI-VI USING USRP
N210
A signale person sending gesture based
messages ,wi-vi correctly decodes all
messages performed at distances equal
It also removes clutter from all to or smaller than 5 meters
static Reflectors,rather than just
one wall.
This includes other walls in the The decoding accuracy decreases to 75% at
environments as well as furniture
distances of 8 meters, an thr device stops
inside and outside the imaged detecting gestures byond 9 meters.
Future Scope:-
 *WI-VI could be build into a smartphone or a special handheld
device.
 *Evolution of seeing human through denser building material and
with a longer ranger&high quality images

CONCLUSION:-
* WI-VI,a wirless technology that uses that uses WI-FI signals to
detect moving human behind walls and in closed rooms .in contrast to
previous system ,which are targeted for the military,wi-vi enbles small
cheap see- through – wall devices that operated in the ISM band, rendering
them feasible to the general public ,without carrying any transmitting
device.
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