Vibe2Spike: Batteryless Wireless Tags for Vibration Sensing with Event Cameras and Spiking Networks

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11640v1
• Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2025 18:53:26 GMT
• Title: Vibe2Spike: Batteryless Wireless Tags for Vibration Sensing with Event Cameras and Spiking Networks
• Authors: Danny Scott, William LaForest, Hritom Das, Ioannis Polykretis, Catherine D. Schuman, Charles Rizzo, James Plank, Sai Swaminathan,
• Abstract summary: Vibe2Spike is a battery-free, wireless sensing framework that enables vibration-based activity recognition.<n>Our system uses ultra-low-cost tags composed only of a piezoelectric disc, a Zener diode, and an LED, which harvest vibration energy and emit sparse visible light spikes.
• Score: 1.0339088334191389
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Abstract: The deployment of dense, low-cost sensors is critical for realizing ubiquitous smart environments. However, existing sensing solutions struggle with the energy, scalability, and reliability trade-offs imposed by battery maintenance, wireless transmission overhead, and data processing complexity. In this work, we present Vibe2Spike, a novel battery-free, wireless sensing framework that enables vibration-based activity recognition using visible light communication (VLC) and spiking neural networks (SNNs). Our system uses ultra-low-cost tags composed only of a piezoelectric disc, a Zener diode, and an LED, which harvest vibration energy and emit sparse visible light spikes without requiring batteries or RF radios. These optical spikes are captured by event cameras and classified using optimized SNN models evolved via the EONS framework. We evaluate Vibe2Spike across five device classes, achieving 94.9\% average classification fitness while analyzing the latency-accuracy trade-offs of different temporal binning strategies. Vibe2Spike demonstrates a scalable, and energy-efficient approach for enabling intelligent environments in a batteryless manner.

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