A new MIT research has been launched that speaks of a high technology called Chronos. MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), led by Professor Dina Katabi could make way for safer drones, password-free and exclusive wifi connectivity. So imagine your wireless connection safe from outside intruders and external users.
This is good news for small business owners who have limited access points. Chronos is said to be a system that will enable only a single wifi access point to locate users with the range of tens of centimeters without the use of any external sensors. This means instead of users trying to catch wifi signals, it would be the other way around.
MIT’s team conducted the experiment in two locations both in an apartment and a cafe using a drone. In the 2-bedroom apartment, the technology can detect the location of the resident with 94% accuracy of the time. Meanwhile the cafe demo yielded a result of 97% accuracy in distinguishing internal customers from outsiders.
The margin of error is about 4 centimeters from the safe distance of its user.
“Designing a system that enables one WiFi node to locate another is an important step for wireless technology.” according to Deepak Vasisht a PhD Candidate. Chronos technology identifies users through calculation of “time-of-flight” it takes for the data to travel from the user to a specified access point. Vasisht presented this research paper at this month’s USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI ’16).
