Mobility Mode Detection Using WiFi Signals

Abstract

We utilize Wi-Fi communications from smartphones to predict their mobility mode, i.e. walking, biking and driving. Wi-Fi sensors were deployed at four strategic locations in a closed loop on streets in downtown Toronto. Deep neural network (Multilayer Perceptron) along with three decision tree-based classifiers (Decision Tree, Bagged Decision Tree and Random Forest) are developed. Results show that the best prediction accuracy is achieved by Multilayer Perceptron, with 86.52% correct predictions of mobility modes.