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by lokimedes 1605 days ago
Do any of you see avenues for a conventional radar company to contribute to this emerging trend?

We produce high-end FMCW radars (http://dopplerradars.com) and I have been looking for ways to align us more with Tech and less with Defense.
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transpute 1605 days ago
Arms race: help evolve 802.11bf with deep understanding of risk management. Sell souped-up localization and CSI countermeasure devices, e.g. for industrial laboratories. Work with two celebrity neighbors on a sanctioned, comedic public demo of seeing through home and business walls, in advance of Wi-Fi 7 launch. Publicity will mean a larger market for both attack and defense products. If it's done early enough, it could materially influence the WiFi Sensing standard and thus devices racing to be the first to support not-yet-official WiFi 7. There are legitimate use cases, but consent and bounded scope are critical for mass-market acceptance. Non-naive experts can help.

http://www.orca-project.eu/

https://ans.unibs.it/projects/csi-murder/

> Imagine that someone wants to illegally track the position of a person inside a laboratory, for instance to measure how much time is spent doing different activities at different desks, as depicted in the upper picture. How much effective can this attack be? ... With CSI-MURDER, the localization becomes impossible because results will seem random, thus preserving the person privacy without destroying Wi-Fi communications

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bradleyy 1605 days ago
Presence detection. Make a $50 device I can run on a battery/Power over Ethernet/etc.

Make it all locally manageable, and make it work with HomeAssistant, so I don't have to deal with it "calling home" or shipping data outside my LAN.

I'm not a huge fan of the current crop of presence detection, and mmWave seems like just the thing. Eventually, person detection would be fantastic, but it MUST NOT call home outside the LAN. I don't want that junk going on the internet in any way, shape, or fashion.

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bradleyy 1604 days ago
Use cases:

I need a presence detector that's able to detect children near my pool.

I need a presence detector that can, via gait detection (or other), detect when a specific person crosses a threshold (e.g. autism or Alzheimer's with a tendency to run off)

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bradleyy 1605 days ago
As a guy that works on old cars (and drives them fast) that will never have OEM support for e.g. ADAS, I'd love to have access to a small, discreet (i.e. not visually excessive, but "hideable"), modular set of sensors that could be used to build e.g. ADAS/parking sensors/(pipe dream) automated driving.

I'm sure the OEMs would be interested, but I'm looking for something I can retrofit.

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transpute 1604 days ago
This is a fantastic idea, i.e. refactor the timeline of automotive electronics to backport modern technology options into old car branches, retaining supply chain control in the hands of a individual human mechanic-sysadmin-owner. Reduce the false conflict between technological convenience and security/privacy.
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