Passive and Privacy-Preserving Human Localization: A Social Distancing Approach Using Commercial Millimeter-Wave Access Points

The pandemic outbreak has profoundly changed our life, especially our social habits and communication behaviors. While this dramatic shock has heavily impacted human interaction rules, novel localization techniques are emerging to help society in complying with new policies, such as social distancing. Wireless sensing and machine learning are well suited to alleviate virus propagation in a privacy-preserving manner. However, their wide deployment requires cost-effective installation and operational solutions.