alt Hacker NewsSensing is (sadly) part of Wi-Fi 7. If you have a recent Intel, AMD or Qualcomm device from the past few years, it's likely physically capable of detecting human presence and/or activity (e.g. breathing rate). It can also be done with $20 ESP32 devices + OSS firmware and _possibly_ with compromised radio basebands.
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AzzyHN • today at 2:54 AM
What's the commercial use of having this data though? Or even law enforcement use? We all have our phones on us most of the time anyways, knowing where in my house I'm at doesn't really... change anything...
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jml7c5 • yesterday at 11:47 PM
Commercial use of WiFi sensing predates WiFi 7 (a notable example is Philips smart bulbs with presence detection). AFAIK WiFi 7 just includes an amendment by the 802.11bf working group to improve performance.
Was anyone asking for their network to be able to sense their breathing rate? What does this enable that actually improves people’s lives?
This is the kind of stuff that pushes me to pull a Ron Swanson and throw my technology in the dumpster.