What's scary is that Comcast will be using this to spy on people, and that's going to get back to the government and the cops and the new gestapo will also have that. Not to get all conspiracy theory on y'all.
Oh yes, I've been actually looking at integrating this and other mmwave research into my startup https://trackourhearts.com
Non-intrusive technology which can work at home to monitor people' vitals is a game changer, there are so many applications to this. Research is at the beginning.
Indeed there are privacy issues with big providers doing this, but then this really opens up so many possibilities if done well.
I wish Wifi would be restricted for network use and not (invisible, non-consensual) surveillance or monitoring of any kind.
Maybe it's time to start contacting regulators, who probably have no idea about this
It could be used to scan people's heart rates when they're in a high security line (military check points, airports, embassies) to detect people who are nervous.
I assume some places already use thermal cameras to detect people who are sweating profusely.
Using both together might be a decent way of flagging people who might otherwise slip through security.
Of course there would be many false positives, so it wouldn't be good enough on its own.
> First, the researchers had seven volunteers sit in a chair at various distances of 1, 2, and 3 meters from two ESP32 microcontrollers that used Pulse-Fi to estimate the volunteers’ heart rates
Kinda crazy the arc that 60GHz has taken over the years.
Like ages ago it was going to be Intels docking station standard (WiGig). It died, companies like IgniteNet bought up all the Dell wigig chips, and used them to prototype P2P wireless radios, ultimately building out a new class of metro p2p wireless used by every major vendor. Then it became a component of 5G, mostly used for backhaul but still capable in a lot of Massive MIMO handsets. Some handsets trialling it for in home wifi. And now the chips are probably going back into your laptops/Homes to detect your biometrics.
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[ 1.3 ms ] story [ 36.9 ms ] threadNon-intrusive technology which can work at home to monitor people' vitals is a game changer, there are so many applications to this. Research is at the beginning.
Indeed there are privacy issues with big providers doing this, but then this really opens up so many possibilities if done well.
I assume some places already use thermal cameras to detect people who are sweating profusely.
Using both together might be a decent way of flagging people who might otherwise slip through security.
Of course there would be many false positives, so it wouldn't be good enough on its own.
It's like me telling you: With using just audio I can trace your exact coordinates! ... By using an array of microphones in a room.
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> First, the researchers had seven volunteers sit in a chair at various distances of 1, 2, and 3 meters from two ESP32 microcontrollers that used Pulse-Fi to estimate the volunteers’ heart rates
Yup
Like ages ago it was going to be Intels docking station standard (WiGig). It died, companies like IgniteNet bought up all the Dell wigig chips, and used them to prototype P2P wireless radios, ultimately building out a new class of metro p2p wireless used by every major vendor. Then it became a component of 5G, mostly used for backhaul but still capable in a lot of Massive MIMO handsets. Some handsets trialling it for in home wifi. And now the chips are probably going back into your laptops/Homes to detect your biometrics.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45127983
https://hackaday.io/project/204077-measuring-heart-rate-usin...