We expect to see Wi-Fi devices able to detect the distance to other devices that are nearby, not only the distance, but what is the direction to those devices, with the ability to become a sensor to detect distance, to detect the presence of people, to detect gestures," Cordeiro claimed.

"Essentially what we are doing is that we're going to be able to make devices be context aware, aware of their surroundings, and that's going to enable and open up the ability for new applications to be developed," he added.

Yay. Granular tracking. Exactly what we were asking for with a WIFI protocol.

Anybody know how it might effect power consumption? I know routers are dirt cheap to run, like $1 a month, but I'm sure it will have a measurable impact at the scale of a large nation.

Good. 7 is a pain in the ass to deploy and very fussy. I'm this close to killing my 6hrz shit.