Welcome to this installation guide about testing our Active Beacon solution which allow you to include third-party Wi-Fi devices in the nami sensing mesh. This step-by-step guide will walk you through the different configuration steps and any difficulties you might have.

1. Think ahead of a good location for your devices

nami Wi-Fi sensors (and mesh sensors) perform Wi-Fi sensing, which consists in exchanging Wi-Fi frames with each other and analyzing them, looking at any perturbation in the transmitted signals. Human bodies, made mostly of water, tend to absorb a lot of the Wi-Fi signals. By exchanging Wi-Fi frames, two geographically distant devices create a virtual tripwire that defines an area of your place in which events will be detected (for example, someone moving in the area). This area is what nami calls a sensing zone.

nami offers the possibility to use third-party devices as external beacons into its WiFi sensing network to increase area covered by the sensing zone.

Two nami devices receive frames broadcast by an external beacon.

Generic placement considerations

• Place your Wi-Fi sensor and your Active Beacon above the ground, ideally at waist level. Don't put it on the ground or too close to the ceiling for optimal results.
  
  
• Avoid placing your Wi-Fi sensor and your Active Beacon behind large metallic objects.
  
  
• Do not stack the Wi-Fi sensor and the Active Beacon into each other.
  
  
• Place your Wi-Fi sensor within a reasonable distance from the access point.
  
  
• Place your Active Beacon within a reasonable distance from both the access point and the Wi-Fi sensor.

2. Commission the nami device

With your device placement in mind, proceed with the following steps:

1. Open the nami app

2. Select (or create) a place

3. Go into the place settings

4. Start the setup a single device flow

5. Create a new zone

6. Input Wi-Fi credentials

⚠️  The Wi-Fi access point you choose must be used for the Active Beacon as well.

7. Retrieve the MAC address of the device

You can find it on the device below the QR code, or in the nami app in the device information page.

3. Commission the Active Beacon, using the partner app

1. Open the partner app

2. Commission the device

⚠️  Use the same Wi-Fi access point as you used for the nami device.

3. Retrieve the Wi-Fi MAC address of the device

You can find this information in the box, written on the device or in the app used for commissioning.

Please contact the manufacturer if you can't find this information.

4. Send over the information to nami

Please send over the following information to gregoire@nami.ai.

We will deploy the configuration with your active beacon in the zone.

5. Get the email confirmation from nami

Once the configuration is deployed, nami will send over a confirmation via email.

From that moment, you can restart the nami app and you will see your active beacon appear in the place screen.

6. How to test

The main purpose of this system is to demonstrate some sensing features nami has developed, including motion sensing, and how to add third-party beacon into the sensing mesh.

Live motion graph

Once your system is setup, connect your mobile to the same Wi-Fi network as your devices, and look at the 30sec “live” motion graph in your place screen. Move and stop moving to test the precision of the sensing.

History motion graph

After a few hours of setting up your system, you can look at the history graph to understand when motion was detected in your home. It will give you a good indication about when were people present in your home, and when nobody was there.

Keep in mind that today, nami sensing only detects motion. It will not pick up people present in the home that are not moving. We are working on the detection algorithm to address this limitation.

You may also pick up some false positive. You can adjust the sensitivity of your system in that case.

> How to adjust my system sensitivity

Enjoy monitoring, caring, and surfing through nami waves with our engineering samples. Your feedback and insights are welcome.