Your WiFi is spying on you – and it’s about to get worse
A company in Taiwan recently presented a developing WiFi tech that can be used to monitor your location, heart rate, breathing patterns, sleep cycles, and much more.
The company’s techie bossman, Doctor Tzi-cker Chiueh, claimed that, “Channel state in modern Wi-Fi is susceptible to minor environmental changes.” These tiny changes can be used with an algorithm he helped create that can do breathing rate estimation at 95 percent accuracy over 5 meters, and heart rate measurements at 83 accuracy at a 1 meter distance.
As it turns out, using WiFi sort of like radar is nothing new; it’s been around for a number of years now.
But there are two little details that nobody is mentioning which could make this “WiFi Sensing” much, much more common in the years to come…
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