Joerg Widmer
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About
Joerg Widmer is a prominent researcher specializing in millimeter-wave (mmWave) communications, wireless sensing, and next-generation network systems. His work sits at the intersection of wireless communication and intelligent environment interaction, with a particular focus on leveraging existing communication infrastructure for dual purposes. Widmer's most influential contribution, "POLAR: Passive Object Localization with IEEE 802.11ad" (2020, 21 citations), demonstrates how mmWave systems can be repurposed for highly accurate passive object localization using phased antenna arrays — a breakthrough with significant implications for smart factory and industrial IoT applications. His early 5G research, contributing to the mmMAGIC project's use case characterization for frequencies between 6 GHz and 100 GHz (2015), helped lay the conceptual groundwork for modern 5G deployment strategies across diverse scenarios including dense urban environments and cloud services. More recently, Widmer has pioneered indoor mapping through waveSLAM (2023), enabling accurate simultaneous localization and mapping using off-the-shelf mmWave devices — even in challenging low-visibility environments. His exploration of event-based vision network traffic characteristics further reflects his interdisciplinary reach. Collectively, his research advances the frontier of wireless systems that seamlessly integrate communication, sensing, and spatial intelligence.
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- 4Event-Based Vision: Understanding Network Traffic Characteristics2 citations · 2020