Poster: Soft-Swipe: Enabling High-Accuracy Pairing of Vehicles to Lanes using COTS Technology

In this paper we demonstrate a novel system Soft-Swipe, which can enable highly accurate pairing of vehicles to respective lanes in a wide-range of vehicle-based multi-lane service stations using economical general-purpose commodity communication and sensing technology. To study the system, we consider an example application of pairing vehicles to respective quality check bays in an automobile manufacturing plant. Our proposed system called SoftSwipe works by matching natural signatures (specifically, motion signatures) generated by the target object with the same signature detected by simple instrumentation of the environment (a video camera). Soft-Swipe is the first work that accurately captures the fine grain motion profile of vehicles using commodity hardware to provide vehicle-to-infrastructure pairing.