Title
Sozu: Self-Powered Radio Tags for Building-Scale Activity Sensing
Abstract
Robust, wide-area sensing of human environments has been a long-standing research goal. We present Sozu, a new low-cost sensing system that can detect a wide range of events wirelessly, through walls and without line of sight, at whole-building scale. To achieve this in a battery-free manner, Sozu tags convert energy from activities that they sense into RF broadcasts, acting like miniature self-powered radio stations. We describe the results from a series of iterative studies, culminating in a deployment study with 30 instrumented objects. Results show that Sozu is very accurate, with true positive event detection exceeding 99%, with almost no false positives. Beyond event detection, we show that Sozu can be extended to detect richer signals, such as the state, intensity, count, and rate of events.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1145/3332165.3347952
Proceedings of the 32nd Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology
Keywords
Field
DocType
activity sensing, battery-free, context-aware computing, internet-of-things, wireless sensing
Sensing system,Software deployment,Computer science,Internet of Things,Real-time computing,Human–computer interaction,False positive paradox
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4503-6816-2
2
0.35
References 
Authors
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yang Zhang118943.34
Yasha Iravantchi292.11
Haojian Jin34610.08
Swarun Kumar439335.36
Chris Harrison52800150.70