LiveSense: A Real-Time Wi-Fi Sensing Platform for Range-Doppler on COTS Laptop

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Main Authors: Sanson, Jessica, Shah, Rahul C., Pinaroc, Maximilian, Tanriover, Cagri, Frascolla, Valerio
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Published: 2026
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author Sanson, Jessica
Shah, Rahul C.
Pinaroc, Maximilian
Tanriover, Cagri
Frascolla, Valerio
author_facet Sanson, Jessica
Shah, Rahul C.
Pinaroc, Maximilian
Tanriover, Cagri
Frascolla, Valerio
contents We present LiveSense - a cross-platform that transforms a commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) Wi-Fi Network Interface Card (NIC) on a laptop into a centimeter-level Range-Doppler sensor while preserving simultaneous communication capability. The laptops are equipped with COTS Intel AX211 (Wi-Fi 6E) or Intel BE201 (Wi-Fi 7) NICs. LiveSense can (i) Extract fully-synchronized channel state information (CSI) at >= 40 Hz, (ii) Perform time-phase alignment and self-interference cancellation on-device, and (iii) Provide a real-time stream of range, Doppler, subcarrier magnitude/phase and annotated video frames to a Python/Qt Graphical User Interface (GUI). The demo will showcase the ability to detect (i) Distance and radial velocity of attendees within a few meters of the device, (ii) Micro-motion (respiration), and (iii) Hand-gesture ranging. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first-ever demo to obtain accurate range information of targets from commercial Wi-Fi, despite the limited 160 MHz bandwidth.
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spellingShingle LiveSense: A Real-Time Wi-Fi Sensing Platform for Range-Doppler on COTS Laptop
Sanson, Jessica
Shah, Rahul C.
Pinaroc, Maximilian
Tanriover, Cagri
Frascolla, Valerio
Signal Processing
Artificial Intelligence
We present LiveSense - a cross-platform that transforms a commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) Wi-Fi Network Interface Card (NIC) on a laptop into a centimeter-level Range-Doppler sensor while preserving simultaneous communication capability. The laptops are equipped with COTS Intel AX211 (Wi-Fi 6E) or Intel BE201 (Wi-Fi 7) NICs. LiveSense can (i) Extract fully-synchronized channel state information (CSI) at >= 40 Hz, (ii) Perform time-phase alignment and self-interference cancellation on-device, and (iii) Provide a real-time stream of range, Doppler, subcarrier magnitude/phase and annotated video frames to a Python/Qt Graphical User Interface (GUI). The demo will showcase the ability to detect (i) Distance and radial velocity of attendees within a few meters of the device, (ii) Micro-motion (respiration), and (iii) Hand-gesture ranging. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first-ever demo to obtain accurate range information of targets from commercial Wi-Fi, despite the limited 160 MHz bandwidth.
title LiveSense: A Real-Time Wi-Fi Sensing Platform for Range-Doppler on COTS Laptop
topic Signal Processing
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.06545