Not Your Father's Wireless Network: See Through Walls Using RF

Here’s a whole different way of thinking about wireless network technology as reported by Technology Review…

Wireless Network Modded to See Through Walls

As TR reports, the University of Utah research involves using the 802.15.4 wireless protocol used in the ZigBee Personal Area Network (PAN) specification. A statistical model is used to determine is something is moving behind a wall by analysing the variance of the signal strength in a peer-to-peer network (34 nodes were used in the experiement.

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