{"id":172753,"date":"2023-09-25T04:24:28","date_gmt":"2023-09-25T09:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/wi-fi-can-decode-hidden-words-concealed-behind-walls"},"modified":"2023-09-25T04:24:28","modified_gmt":"2023-09-25T09:24:28","slug":"wi-fi-can-decode-hidden-words-concealed-behind-walls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/wi-fi-can-decode-hidden-words-concealed-behind-walls","title":{"rendered":"Wi-Fi Can Decode Hidden Words Concealed Behind Walls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pvqL3gqGDeM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Wi-Fi signals can do much more than deliver <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/being-actually-addicted-to-binge-watching-tv-could-be-more-real-than-you-think\">streaming movies<\/a> and music around the home, it turns out: they can also be used to identify shapes through solid walls, as demonstrated in recent experiments.<\/p>\n<p>The ability for Wi-Fi to spot movement through walls has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/wi-fi-signals-can-identify-you-through-walls-and-even-track-your-movements\">shown off before<\/a>, but the technology struggles with seeing anything that isn\u2019t in motion.<\/p>\n<p>To overcome that limitation, researchers from the University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) designed a Wi-Fi setup to concentrate specifically on the edges of objects, much like a person might do an outline drawing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wi-Fi signals can do much more than deliver streaming movies and music around the home, it turns out: they can also be used to identify shapes through solid walls, as demonstrated in recent experiments. The ability for Wi-Fi to spot movement through walls has been shown off before, but the technology struggles with seeing anything [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,418,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-habitats","category-internet","category-media-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}