Project description
Wi-Fi sensing and communication for digital health monitoring
As the world’s population ages, healthcare costs are climbing, creating an urgent need for affordable digital health monitoring tools. While Wi-Fi offers a solution, it is limited by signal interference. Supported by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme, the ISACare project will develop integrated sensing and communication solutions for digital health monitoring based on the IEEE 802.11bf Wi-Fi standard. The project aims to reduce sensing overhead, improve environmental adaptability, and enable reliable monitoring of physiological parameters such as respiration and heart rate. Ultimately, the project’s goal is to help millions of people and save billions of euro by preventing unnecessary hospital visits and replacing battery-powered health sensors.
Objective
Global population aging is driving healthcare costs to unsustainable levels, which underscores the urgent need for scalable and affordable digital health monitoring. Within this paradigm, WiFi sensing stands out for accessible WiFi infrastructure and non-intrusive nature. However, current WiFi sensing methods are fundamentally limited by conflicts between sensing and communication traffic, reliance on raw channel state information (CSI), and fragility under non-stationary environmental dynamics.
This project, ISACare, will propose novel integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) solutions for sustainable and robust digital health monitoring based on the first sensing-native WiFi standard IEEE 802.11bf (finalized in May 2025). Specifically, ISACare will (i) reduce sensing overhead by developing a CSI extrapolation and compressed CSI feedback framework compatible with IEEE 802.11bf (ii) mitigate non-stationary environmental dynamics through multi-AP cooperative sensing and contrastive learning, and (iii) enhance environmental robustness by constructing hybrid datasets that combine synthetic ray-tracing samples with empirical measurements. Together, these innovations will enable sustainable and robust monitoring of physiological parameters such as respiration and heartbeat in real-world healthcare scenarios.
The project aims at a long-term impact to benefit millions of elderly citizens and patients worldwide and save billions of euros in annual savings across the EU by reducing avoidable hospitalizations and unnecessary clinical visits as well as replacing battery-based wireless wearable/implantable sensors for health monitoring.
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HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
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