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04 Aug 2014

UCL EEE is seeking industry partners to commercialise WiFi Passive Radar to detect motion through walls

UCL Electronic and Electrical Engineering is seeking industry partners to help commercialise a low cost, low energy additional capability for wireless networks.

  • UCL’s Passive Wireless Movement Detection (PWMD) technology harnesses existing wireless network or mobile device signals to detect and classify human motions.
  • The technology incorporates patented advanced high speed Doppler processing to enable real time display of a wide range of motions with very high sensitivity to motion and through wall detection capability. It is future proofed and reconfigurable for 4G and 5G.
  • PWMD technology has numerous application that include healthcare monitoring, emergency/disaster recovery, gesture recognition and control, retail tracking and security surveillance.
  • PMWD is a low cost addition to add significant capability to existing WiFi networks or mobile devices and has significant market potential.
  • Prototype hardware and signal processing has been developed and impressive results demonstrated in a range of application scenarios. Based on reconfigurable Software Defined Radio technology. Can be set up to use any installed access point or as stand alone gesture recognition demo. Fully portable laptop based demo system - commercial system could be built into USB dongle sized package.
  • The rapidly growing wireless environment is an ideal situation to further develop this technology.
  • UK Patent Application No. 1319151.5 "Passive Wi-Fi Sensing".
  • Interested parties should contact Business Development Manager Tim Bodley-Scott ([email protected]) in the first instance.
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