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Noise to Signal: Repurposing Commodity Resistors for Ultra-Low

Cost Hydrostatic Pressure Sensing

B. Yen, B. Nguyen, A. Raigosa, E. LeChien, Z. Kapetanovic
ACM SenSys 2027 (to appear)

NavHD: Low-Power Learning for Micro-Robotic Controls in the Wild

C. Lee, S. Achour, Z. Kapetanovic
IEEE IROS 2025

Hypercam: Low-power Onboard Computer Vision for IoT Cameras

C. Lee, L. Yi, M. Fite, T. Rao, S. Achour, Z. Kapetanovic
ACM MobiCom 2025

SARLink

SARLink: Satellite Backscatter Connectivity using Synthetic Aperture Radar

G. Ecola, B. Yen, A. Morgado, B. Priyantha, R. Chandra, Z. Kapetanovic
ACM SenSys 2025

Wireless Johnson Noise Thermometry for Passive Temperature Sensing

J. Falconer*, G. Ecola*, Z. Kapetanovic
IEEE Microwaves 2025
*primary co-authors

Cosmic Backscatter: New Ways to Communicate via Modulated Noise

Z. Kapetanovic, S. Garman, D. Stotland, J.R. Smith ACM HotNets 2023

Communication by Means of Modulated Johnson Noise

Z. Kapetanovic, M. Morales, J.R. Smith
PNAS 2022

WHISPER: IoT in the TV White Space Spectrum

T. Chakraborty, H. Shi, Z. Kapetanovic, B. Priyantha, D. Vasisht, B. Vu, P. Pandit, P. Pillai, Y. Chabria, A. Nelson, M. Daum, R. Chandra
USENIX NSDI 2022

Glaze: Overlaying Occupied Spectrum with Downlink IoT Transmissions

Z. Kapetanovic, A. Saffari, R. Chandra, J.R. Smith
ACM IMWUT 2020

FarmBeats: An IoT Platform for Data-Driven Agriculture

D. Vasisht, Z. Kapetanovic, J. Won, X. Jin, R.Chandra, A. Kapoor, S. Sinha, M. Sudarshan, S.Stratman
USENIX NSDI 2017

Experiences Deploying an Always-On Farm Network

Z. Kapetanovic, D. Vasisht, J. Won, R. Chandra, M. Kimball
GetMobile 2017

WISPCam: A Battery-free RFID Camera

S. Naderipariz, A. Parks, Z. Kapetanovic, B. Ransford, J. Smith
IEEE RFID 2015