Description of wifi_sensor

ROS package to use the RSSI of a wifi card as a sensor. Measurements are pulished to the /wifi topic.

Notes

You must make the permissions on the file wifi_sensor.py executable.

You have to do these things so that you can use the wifi as a sensor in ros.

mkdir wifi_ws
cd mkdir wifi_ws
mkdir src
cd src
git clone https://github.com/bryantaoli/wifi_sensor
cd ..
catkin_make
sudo su
pip install pywifi
In another terminal, you should start a roscore.
rosrun wifi_sensor wifi_sensor.py