Capacitive User Tracking Methods for Smart Environments

Passive positioning for smart environments, that could enable the tracking of people unobtrusively without any conscious human interaction and without compromising the user privacy with video based solutions, has remained as a challenging problem for decades [2]. Indeed, many of the current technologies are not welcome in a domestic environment where people should be able to live in comfort, feel safe and relax. For example, peoplemight find the positioning sensors too bulky and non-decorative, fear that their privacy is violated through them, or simply see no benefits of using them. Thus, these views pose serious challenges to the positioning technologies needed to enable the smart environments of the future.

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