Wi-Fi Now Episode 18
On this episode of Wi-Fi Now, host Claus Hetting talks with Aleksander Kuzmanovic, Associate Professor of Computer Science at Northwestern University, who has created Wi-FM, a tool that helps improve Wi-Fi quality through FM radio.
Kuzmanovic, speaking of poor quality Wi-Fi, told a Northwestern University publication, “Most people think it’s a mystery. They get upset at their routers. But what’s really happening is that your neighbor is watching Netflix.”
He developed the technology with PhD students Marcel Flores and Uri Klarman.
Flores told the university maagazine: “Our wireless networks are completely separate from each other. They don’t have any way to talk to each other even though they are all approximately in the same place. We tried to think about ways in which devices in the same place could implicitly communicate. FM is everywhere.”
