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Unlocking the beamforming potential of LoRa for long-range multi-target respiration sensing

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Despite extensive research effort in contact-free sensing using RF signals in the last few years, there still exist significant barriers preventing their wide adoptions. One key issue is the inability to sense multiple targets due to the intrinsic nature of relying on reflection signals for sensing: the reflections from multiple targets get mixed at the receiver and it is extremely difficult to separate these signals to sense each individual. This problem becomes even more severe in long-range LoRa sensing because the sensing range is much larger compared to WiFi and acoustic based sensing. In this work, we address the challenging multi-target sensing issue, moving LoRa sensing one big step towards practical adoption. The key idea is to effectively utilize multiple antennas at the LoRa gateway to enable spatial beamforming to support multi-target sensing. While traditional beamforming methods adopted in WiFi and Radar systems rely on accurate channel information or transmitter-receiver synchronization, these requirements can not be satisfied in LoRa systems: the transmitter and receiver are not synchronized and no channel state information can be obtained from the cheap LoRa nodes. Another interesting observation is that while beamforming helps to increase signal strength, the phase/amplitude information which is critical for sensing can get corrupted during the beamforming process, eventually compromising the sensing capability. In this paper, we propose novel signal processing methods to address the issues above to enable long-range multi-target reparation sensing with LoRa. Extensive experiments show that our system can monitor the respiration rates of five human targets simultaneously at an average accuracy of 98.1%.
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hal-03363386 , version 1 (03-10-2021)

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Fusang Zhang, Zhaoxin Chang, Jie Xiong, Rong Zheng, Junqi Ma, et al.. Unlocking the beamforming potential of LoRa for long-range multi-target respiration sensing. Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies , 2021, 5 (2), pp.85:1-85:25. ⟨10.1145/3463526⟩. ⟨hal-03363386⟩
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