Device-free sensing using ubiquitous Wi-Fi signals has recently attracted lots of attention. Among the sensed information, two important basic contexts are (i) whether a target is still or not and (ii) where the target is located. Continuous monitoring of these contexts provides us with rich datasets to obtain important high-level semantics of the target such as living habits, physical conditions and emotions. However, even to obtain these two basic contexts, offline training and calibration are needed in traditional methods, limiting the real-life adoption of the proposed sensing systems. In this paper, using the commodity Wi-Fi infrastructure, we propose a training-free human vitality sensing platform, WiVit. It could capture these two contexts together with the target's movements speed information in real-time without any human effort in offline training or calibration. Based on our extensive experiments in three typical indoor environments, the precision of activity detection is higher than 98% and the area detection accuracy is close to 100%. Moreover, we implement a short-term activity recognition system on our platform to recognize 4 types of actions, and we can reach an average accuracy of 94.2%. We also take a feasibility study of monitoring long-term activities of daily living to show our platform's potential applications in practice.
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