Initial Attempt on Wi-Fi CSI Based Vibration Sensing for Factory Equipment Fault Detection

Wi-Fi signal based detection is widely implemented in indoor action detection because of its low-cost and easy implementation. But it is still rarely used in equipment vibration detection. Moreover, it is hard to detect multiple targets where we need to monitor multiple equipments’ vibration state such as in the factory environment. In this paper, we propose a wireless based vibration sensing method using Wi-Fi for factory equipment fault detection. First, we use CSI amplitude data to distinguish sensing target equipments. Then, we apply an anomaly detection method to detect faulty machine operation. We conducted initial experiments to validate the feasibility of our proposed fault detection method. The experimental results show that our method detected abnormal situations with an accuracy of 100%, while 10% of normal situations were mistakenly recognized as abnormal.