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Some Standford students seem to have done something quite similar already. https://web.stanford.edu/~skatti/pubs/sigcomm15-backfi.pdf

That paper is referenced in the paper cited in this article. Number 52: http://longrange.cs.washington.edu/files/loRaBackscatter.pdf

The Washington guys are definitely the leaders when it comes to backscatter stuff.