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How Can ISPs Enter Security?
The average person spends approximately 60% of their waking hours at home, according to the American Time Use Survey. Regardless of cultural background, households worldwide prioritize comfort, convenience, and safety in their homes. Internet service providers (ISPs)...
How Can ISPs Enter Security?
Internet service providers (ISPs) have been the natural and dominant solution for delivering the first two needs, comfort and convenience, to their customers via broadband. However, ISPs have struggled to meet the third need, safety, by developing and marketing effective security solutions. To penetrate the security market, ISPs need to take a different approach and capitalize on their most valuable resource: WiFi. By focusing on their strengths, ISPs can establish security solutions as a core part of their service offerings.
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Cognitive Systems Continues to Expand Global Reach with Airties WiFi 6 Portfolio
Cognitive Systems Corp. integrates its WiFi Motion technology with Airties' WiFi 6 solutions, facilitating access to revolutionary sensing technology for service providers. With WiFi Motion, homes become motion-sensing networks using connected IoT devices, offering innovative WiFi applications. Currently adopted by 37 ISPs globally, WiFi Motion provides enhanced home monitoring and anticipates an eldercare solution without the need for cameras or wearables. Taj Manku, CEO of Cognitive Systems, highlights the collaboration's focus on delivering smart WiFi solutions that extend beyond connectivity. Airties' Co-Founder and CTO, Metin Taskin, emphasizes the integration's potential for service providers to offer value-add WiFi services.
Cognitive Systems Announces Availability of WiFi Motion Sensing across Complete Broadcom Advanced WiFi 6/6E AP Portfolio
Cognitive Systems Corp. announces its WiFi Motion™ technology as the standard for Broadcom's WiFi 6 mesh and access point solutions. This partnership aims to integrate WiFi Motion into every home with WiFi, paving the way for global expansion. WiFi Motion, utilizing machine learning, interprets signal disturbances in the WiFi environment, transforming homes into motion-sensing networks for various applications. Taj Manku, CEO of Cognitive Systems, expresses excitement about addressing gaps in testing and scalability, emphasizing endless possibilities for motion sensing. The collaboration with Broadcom aligns with the vision of deriving untapped value from WiFi networks, shaping the foundation for next-gen smart homes.
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.