Simulating a Multi-Vehicle Traffic Sensing System Based on Radio Tomographic Imaging

Abstract One of the most recently developed wireless technologies is Radio Tomographic Imaging (RTI). RTI employs a wireless sensor network that produces images of the change in the electromagnetic field of a monitored area using Received Signal Strength (RSS) measurements. This allows the tracking of device-free objects such as humans and cars. This paper is the first to propose and validate a simulation model that simulates RSS measurements for arbitrary RTI networks, based on the ZigBee communication protocol. The simulation model allows the specification of an RTI network from the ground u...