Description
"Commodity Wi-Fi" is the canonical positioning phrase of CSI sensing literature: it asserts that a result was obtained on standards-compliant, off-the-shelf 802.11 hardware (Intel 5300, Atheros AR9xxx, Broadcom via Nexmon, Wi-Fi 6 via PicoScenes) rather than on bespoke SDR or radar gear. The whole research programme depends on this distinction — sensing must work on hardware already deployed in offices and homes, not on dedicated radars. This umbrella entry canonicalises the phrase across papers that don't name a specific NIC.
Specs / capabilities
- Platform class, not a single device
- Resolves in practice to one of: intel-5300, atheros-csi-tool, nexmon-csi, picoscenes
Tooling
- See per-chip notes
Used by (papers)
- Used as a generic positioning term across CSI sensing literature