AdaWiFi, Collaborative WiFi Sensing for Cross-Environment Adaptation

Deep learning (DL) based Wi-Fi sensing has witnessed great development in recent years. Although decent results have been achieved in certain scenarios, Wi-Fi based activity recognition is still difficult to deploy in real smart homes due to the limited cross-environment adaptability, i.e. a well-trained Wi-Fi sensing neural network in one environment is hard to adapt to other environments. To address this challenge, we propose AdaWiFi , a DL-based Wi-Fi sensing framework that allows multiple Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices to collaborate and adapt to various environments effectively. The key innovation of AdaWiFi includes a collective sensing model architecture that utilizes complementary information between distinct devices and avoids the biased perception of individual sensors and an accompanying model adaptation technique that can transfer the sensing model to new environments with limited data. We evaluate our system on a public dataset and a custom dataset collected from three complex sensing environments. The results demonstrate that AdaWiFi is able to achieve significantly better sensing adaptation effectiveness (e.g. 30% higher accuracy with one-shot adaptation) as compared with state-of-the-art baselines.