Title
Crowd Estimation Using Electromagnetic Wave Power-Level Measurements: A Proof of Concept
Abstract
Current crowd density estimation technologies that leverage IR depth perception, video and image processing or WiFi/BLE-based sniffing and probing have privacy and deployment issues. This paper presents a novel method for non-intrusive crowd density estimation that monitors variation in EM radiation within an environment. The human body's electrical and magnetic characteristics can be correlated with variations in available EM energy. This allows for the determination of the number of people within a room. Simulations conducted using Comsol to analyse and measure electromagnetic energy levels inside a room containing human bodies. Experimental analysis provides validation of the simulation results by showing <inline-formula xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\text{0.8}\;\text{dBm}$</tex-math></inline-formula> drop on the average level of EM energy per person.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1109/TVT.2019.2955223
IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Estimation,Bluetooth,Wireless fidelity,Privacy,Poles and towers,Feature extraction,Mobile handsets
Journal
69
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
1
0018-9545
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.35
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Farzad Tofigh142.42
Majid Amiri210.69
Negin Shariati362.66
Justin Lipman410.35
Mehran Abolhasan545148.95