Book description

With this groundbreaking text, discover how wireless artificial intelligence (AI) can be used to determine position at centimeter level, sense motion and vital signs, and identify events and people. Using a highly innovative approach that employs existing wireless equipment and signal processing techniques to turn multipaths into virtual antennas, combined with the physical principle of time reversal and machine learning, it covers fundamental theory, extensive experimental results, and real practical use cases developed for products and applications. Topics explored include indoor positioning and tracking, wireless sensing and analytics, wireless power transfer and energy efficiency, 5G and next-generation communications, and the connection of large numbers of heterogeneous IoT devices of various bandwidths and capabilities. Demo videos accompanying the book online enhance understanding of these topics. Providing a unified framework for wireless AI, this is an excellent text for graduate students, researchers, and professionals working in wireless sensing, positioning, IoT, machine learning, signal processing and wireless communications.

Reviews

‘Authored by respected pioneers of this field, this book offers a generalised framework by combining physics, signal processing and machine learning to tackle many real-world applications of importance, with low complexity for practical implementation. It reveals the prospect that ambient radio can serve as a new sixth sense to help decipher the world. Written with mathematical rigour and engineering insight, this book is an excellent reference for both researchers in academia and practitioners in industry.'

Wen Yonggang - Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

‘Wireless AI is changing the world by enabling wireless sensing and tracking to an unprecedented level. This is the first book on major breakthroughs in this emerging field. A must read!'

Sadaoki Furui - Toyota Technological Institute, Chicago

‘Wireless AI is an exciting and timely book that provides the reader with the background and material needed to not only ride the wave of technological advancement but also contribute to it. Paradigm-shifting advancements, like time-reversal, cloud-RAN, motion detection and localization, and waveform designs are described in detail. Wireless AI is an innovative text that is sure to help engineers and students contribute to the rapidly evolving fields of wireless sensing and communications.'

Wade Trappe - Rutgers University, New Jersey

'… an excellent book on wireless AI, with unique and comprehensive coverage, for both researchers and practitioners.'

Geoffrey Li - Georgia Institute of Technology

'This book provides comprehensive coverage of extending the application of wireless networks from communication to sensing and environment analytics. The time-reversal approach is a fundamental tool for these new capabilities, and the book presents deep theoretical foundations as well as strong experimental results, with a clear and easy-to-follow presentation. A must read for students and professionals in electrical, communications, and computer engineering.'

Henrique S. Malvar - Microsoft Research