Human Movement Detection and Gait Periodicity Analysis Using Channel State Information

Under the influence of multipath effects and small scale fading, the robustness and reliability of the existing human detection methods based on radio frequency signals are easy to be impaired. In this paper, we propose a novel design that using the multi-layer filtering of channel state information (CSI) to identify moving targets in dynamic environments and analyze the gait periodicity of human. We employ an efficient CSI subcarrier feature difference to the multi-layer filtering method leveraging principal component analysis (PCA) and discrete wavelet transform (DWT) to eliminate the noises. Furthermore, we propose a profile matching mechanism for human detection and a periodicity analysis mechanism for human gait taking advantage of the above design. We evaluated it with the commodity Wi-Fi infrastructures in different environments. Experimental results indicate that our approach performs identification of human with an average accuracy of 94%.