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Too Many Notifications, Too Little Value: How to Optimize Wi-Fi Sensing Alerts
Nobody likes an app that just won’t stop buzzing. At their best, notifications keep users informed, engaged, and in control. At their worst, they become a relentless source of frustration—interrupting daily life, creating anxiety, and driving users to disable alerts...
Too Many Notifications, Too Little Value: How to Optimize Wi-Fi Sensing Alerts
Nobody likes an app that won’t stop buzzing. In Wi-Fi Sensing applications, where notifications often relate to home security or caregiving, excessive alerts can frustrate users, leading to disengagement or disabled notifications. The key to success? Smarter, context-rich alerts that deliver real value—prioritizing relevance, reducing redundancy, and giving users control over their notification experience. This blog covers how to optimize Wi-Fi Sensing alerts to keep users informed without overwhelming them.
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Predictions for the Evolution of Tech at Home in 2021
Much of life as we know it transformed significantly in 2020. We hoped that things would go "back to normal" but ...
Breakthrough in Wi-Fi Sensing: 37 Service Providers Deploy Cognitive’s Wi-Fi Motion
Wi-Fi sensing-as-a-service, once a promising innovation, has rapidly evolved into a revenue-generating reality. Cognitive Systems, a leader in Wi-Fi sensing, has achieved a remarkable milestone with 37 ISPs worldwide offering its WiFi Motion services. In just two years, Wi-Fi sensing has become a retention tool for service providers, demonstrating effectiveness in both generating revenue and retaining customers. Cognitive's WiFi Motion, the foundation for motion-based broadband services, stands out for its hardware-free and easily upgradable nature, making it a cost-effective investment for long-term viability in the competitive smart home market. Taj Manku, CEO of Cognitive Systems, emphasizes the utility of Wi-Fi sensing in enhancing service provider apps, leading to higher engagement rates and increased customer retention.
2021: Looking Forward to a Smarter Future
Connected homes and central smart home devices are the future of technology. WiFi Motion will help seamlessly connect us in 2021.
What Is WiFi Sensing and What Can It Do?
WiFi sensing, a form of short-range passive radar technology, is gaining prominence beyond internet access, offering applications like motion detection and monitoring. Cognitive Systems, a leader in WiFi sensing, enables motion-sensing services for 37 ISPs globally. WiFi sensing measures how WiFi signals interact with movement, leveraging existing devices like smartphones and PCs. With applications ranging from security monitoring to patient care, WiFi sensing operates in infrastructure or ad-hoc modes and can be active or passive. While promising, challenges include susceptibility to interference and resource depletion under heavy traffic. Despite hurdles, WiFi sensing is already finding applications in home intrusion detection, patient monitoring, and more.
Wi-Fi Sensing Adds Motion Detection and Gesture Recognition to Your Wireless Network
Wi-Fi sensing, a technology that utilizes wireless networks to detect environmental changes, offers alternatives for monitoring spaces without invading privacy. By processing signals from various Wi-Fi devices, Wi-Fi sensing can detect motion, presence, and other changes. Possible applications include security, elder care, home automation, and gesture recognition. The technology, still in its early stages, lacks standardization, hindering its full potential. Efforts are underway, including the IEEE 802.11 Working Group's amendment to support Wi-Fi sensing, to address gaps and establish standards for increased functionality, interoperability, and reliability.
For the IoT, User Anonymity Shouldn’t Be an Afterthought. It Should Be Baked In From the Start
Certain Internet of Things (IoT) businesses are adopting an "anonymity by design" approach, focusing on creating products that discard personally identifiable information from the start. Instead of anonymizing data after the fact, these companies aim to design products that make it impossible for them to identify individuals. For instance, Density, which developed a people-counting sensor, uses depth-perceiving sensors to count people based on height differentials, avoiding the need for cameras and concerns about surveillance. Cognitive Systems, which interprets Wi-Fi signal disruptions to understand movements, emphasizes processing data locally and avoiding the transmission of identifiable information to the cloud, addressing privacy concerns from the outset.
What is WiFi Motion?
Motion detection using your existing Wi-Fi.
WiFi Motion™ provides whole home awareness by sensing and deciphering movement anywhere Wi-Fi signals are present. All you need is a router with WiFi Motion software and all your connected smart devices will automatically double as motion sensors.
Best of all, it’s easy! You don’t need to install a bunch of new hardware. Upgrades are seamless. It will never be obsolete. You won’t even notice it’s running, and your privacy is always protected.
WiFi Motion for Wellness Monitoring
Caregivers want to know their loved ones are safe. Seniors and people with special needs want to maintain their independence at home with dignity. Enter WiFi Motion—the solution that uses wireless signals to detect motion without using cameras or infringing on privacy.
With WiFi Motion, caregivers can monitor motion, visits from health care professionals, and unusual behaviour such as staying in bed longer than normal. Motion is monitored unobtrusively without the need for wearable devices. It’s a much more affordable and convenient alternative to assisted living facilities and other security and health monitoring tools.
Smart Home with WiFi Motion Video
Experience a truly cognitive home with enhanced capabilities thanks to WiFi Motion. Using predictive analytics and artificial intelligence (AI), WiFi Motion learns movement patterns and triggers smart home functions accordingly.
Enjoy the convenience of coming home to the temperature and lighting in your home set just the way you like it. WiFi Motion can trigger your smart home system to take specific actions based on movements, like adjusting the thermostat when you walk through the front door, or turning other smart devices on or off based on your preferences.