Abstract
Atmospheric humidity is one of the most important environmental attributes for weather condition. It affects the economy of nature as well as human life. Many environmental processes are affected by this attribute. For example, rice has the most powerful photosynthesis when the atmospheric humidity is in between 50% and 60%. For most of the human being, the humidity in between 20% and 80% is good to have a healthy life. Consequently, humidity measurement methods are urgently required. The existing methods are neither convenient for large scale deployment due to the high cost nor accurate enough to use. Recently, researchers found that humidity has a direct effect on radio propagation. This observation is undoubtedly useful to measure humidity in the environment. However, the humidity estimation based on received signal strength indicator (RSSI) is easily affected by the temporal and spatial variance due to multipath effect. Meanwhile, the change of radio signals incurred by RSSI-based systems is not that much obvious when the transmitter and receiver are in close distance. As a result, it is challenging to measure humidity in indoor environments. In this work, we provide a novel system, namely WiHumidity, to tackle this problem. The system utilizes the special diversity of channel state information (CSI) to alleviate multipath effect at the receiver. Extensive experiments have been conducted to verify the effectiveness of WiHumidity. The experimental results verify that on average, WiHumidity can achieve 79% measurement accuracy.
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This research is supported in part by the Shenzhen Science and Technology Foundation (No. KQCX20150324160536457, JCYJ20150324141711621.), China NSFC Grant 61472259, 61502313, Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University (NCET-13-0908), Guangdong Talent Project 2014TQ01X238, 2015TX01X111 and GDUPS (2015). Tencent “Rhinoceros Birds” - Scientific Research Foundation for Young Teachers of Shenzhen University.
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Zhang, X., Ruby, R., Long, J., Wang, L., Ming, Z., Wu, K. (2017). WiHumidity: A Novel CSI-Based Humidity Measurement System. In: Qiu, M. (eds) Smart Computing and Communication. SmartCom 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10135. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52015-5_55
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