Citation

Ooi, Boon Yaik and Kong, Zan Wai and Tan, Ian Kim Teck and Ooi, Boon Sheng (2016) Measuring the accuracy of crowd counting using Wi-Fi probe-request-frame counting technique. Journal of Telecommunication, Electronic and Computer Engineering, 8 (2). pp. 79-81. ISSN 2180 – 1843

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Abstract

Wi-Fi in smartphones are designed to periodically transmit probe-request-frame to determine when a known access point is within range and by capitalizing this Wi-Fi behavior, crowd counting and analysis have been done by continuous monitoring and counting these Wi-Fi frames. The proliferation of Wi-Fi enabled mobile devices and the ever-increasing number of mobile devices in use, suggests opportunities for developing lowcost crowd counting and analysis solution. This work attempt to measure how well do monitoring and counting these Wi-Fi frames correlate with the actual number of people presence in a crowd. In this paper, we also compare the pros and cons of various crowd counting technologies, describe the system that we used for counting Wi-Fi frames and compare its accuracy against manual crowd counting technique in an event involving the public continuously for 8 hours. The results are promising, the correlation between manual counting and Wi-Fi frames counting is 0.89322. In addition to that, the Wi-Fi frames counting technique can even reveal the retention rate of the crowd.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Crowd counting, Wi-Fi sensing, 802.11 frames capturing, IEEE 802.11 (Standard)
Subjects:	T Technology > TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering > TK5101-6720 Telecommunication. Including telegraphy, telephone, radio, radar, television
Divisions:	Faculty of Computing and Informatics (FCI)
Depositing User:	Ms Rosnani Abd Wahab
Date Deposited:	16 Jul 2020 03:14
Last Modified:	16 Jul 2020 03:14
URII:	http://shdl.mmu.edu.my/id/eprint/6793

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