Yunze Zeng
ABSTRACT
Substantial progress in WiFi-based indoor localization has proven that pervasiveness of WiFi can be exploited beyond its traditional use of internet access to enable a variety of sensing applications. Understanding shopper's behavior through physical analytics can provide crucial insights to the business owner in terms of effectiveness of promotions, arrangement of products and efficiency of services. However, analyzing shopper's behavior and browsing patterns is challenging. Since video surveillance can not used due to high cost and privacy concerns, it is necessary to design novel techniques that can provide accurate and efficient view of shopper's behavior. In this work, we propose WiFi-based sensing of shopper's behavior in a retail store. Specifically, we show that various states of a shopper such as standing near the entrance to view a promotion or walking quickly to proceed towards the intended item can be accurately classified by profiling Channel State Information (CSI) of WiFi. We recognize a few representative states of shopper's behavior at the entrance and inside the store, and show how CSI-based profile can be used to detect that a shopper is in one of the states with very high accuracy (≈ 90%). We discuss the potential and limitations of CSI-based sensing of shopper's behavior and physical analytics in general.
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Index Terms
- Analyzing Shopper's Behavior through WiFi Signals
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