Tutorial on Exploiting Rich Information in WSNs:A Case for Low Power Radar
Anish Arora
The Samraksh Company
samraksh.com
Anish Arora
The Samraksh Company
samraksh.com
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Main motivation
People sensing and activity monitoring is of broad and growing interest
Attempt to address false alarm challenge at scale
Using robust motion detection, tracking, classification, counting building blocks
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Need for Information Rich Sensors
• People monitoring applications need information rich sensors
• Traditional WSN sensors are inadequate Point sensors (e.g., temperature) Tripwire sensors (e.g., PIR) Pressure wave sensors (e.g., acoustic)
• Video image analysis sort of or mostly works But high power & high cost Not really WSN, wired power and high bandwidth
• WSN community has spent lots of time on networking and not enough on sensing
We focus on low-cost, low-power PDRs
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Outline
• Video overview
• Radar concepts, BumbleBee, relative resolution via phase
· Research results Displacement detection Fine-grain and Coarse-grain Tracking Gait classification People counting
· Conclusions
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Concepts: Pulse Width/Length Pulse Power Pulse Repetition Frequency
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Complex Output PDRs
• Generate two pulses 90 degrees out of phase
Correlate them with the same reference pulse
• Produce in phase and quadrature responses
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Coherent Radars
When signals are the same at each time they add coherently
noise typically is not coherent
integration over N pulses increases SNR by N
useful when signal buried in the noise, i.e. SNR<0
For ground radars the background is as large as the returns
from a human unlike traditional aerial radars, so coherent radars suit
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Phase is a Function of Range
• We are measuring range Measurement has high local precision Measurement has no global information
• Range measurement has high information: But is ambiguous
• Phase determines range plus or minus integer multiple of the wavelength
With range gating, the set of multiples has cardinality of 10 to 100 (not millions)
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Phase Unwrapping
• A temporal sequence of the phase reveals the relative range
• Converting the “wrapped” phase to relative range is known as “phase unwrapping”
Equivalent to tracking phase changes
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Phase Unwrapping Errors
• But noise will cause unwrapping errors “Wrap” the origin when you shouldn’t Didn’t “wrap” the origin when you should
• Key problem: errors have permanent effect But errors are relatively rare Phase → Unwrap → Curve Fit → Differentiate → Velocity Profile
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Multiple Targets (cont.)
• Returns from multiple targets are mixed• Returns tends to vary greatly
1/R4 effect makes slightly closer targets significantly stronger Wide range of RCS
As a result one of the targets tends to be dominant
Lesser targets introduce only modest wobble about the dominant target– Only slight dominance is
required A human:
– A collection of several returns moving in close proximity
– A complex non-static formation– Still looks like a single smoothly
moving target
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The BumbleBee Radar
• A coherent, complex output Doppler radar Not a ranging radar; only one range bin Provides complex Doppler returns (e.g., separates positive and
negative frequencies)
WB but not quite UWB– ~100 MHz of bandwidth– UWB requires significant
computing power for the receiver, or expensive electronics
Short range, low power, low cost– 10 m range– $100 in quantity one
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rsDisplacement Detection
• Brush blowing in the wind causes serious false alarm problems Ground based radars tend to be looking up at the trees Often large cross sections; may be larger than the targets
• Trees move back and forth, but stay in one place Targets of interest don’t stay in one place
• Detect displacements larger than a few meters Use phase unwrapping
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Pendulum Tracking
• Place two radars 90º apart and track a 2d pendulum
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Network Tracking
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Gait Classification
• How to look at motion in the frame of reference of the target: Track the main return, using phase
unwrapping Demodulate the signal using this
“main” return The residual is the “Doppler” with
respect to main motion
• Motion of human legs exhibits a characteristic pattern Two pendulums exactly out of
phase with each other What we call a “butterfly” pattern
• Not present when a dog walks through field of view
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People “Counting”
• Really, estimation of people count
• Spectral pattern and energy level varies significantly with type of activity
• However, given a kind of activity, total energy scales with number of people in the scene
Useful when type of activity (e.g., standing in line) is known
• Also more people result in spectral fill-in
• Even if counts are only accurate to 10 or 20%, still useful
Ongoing research, maybe better
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