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rUv b6420ac9ba fix(server): make synthetic CSI opt-in only (sibling fix to #937) (#979)
Background

Issue #937 in the cognitum-v0 appliance repo flagged that the
`cognitum-csi-capture` systemd unit shipped `--simulate` by default,
silently serving synthetic CSI tagged as production telemetry on
`/api/v1/sensor/stream`. That's a textbook trust-eroding pattern — the
single most-cited "where's the real data?" evidence external reviewers
(#943, #934) point at when they call the project AI-slop.

A grep across THIS tree surfaced the exact same anti-pattern in three
places:

  docker/docker-compose.yml:27        # auto (default) — probe ESP32, fall back to simulation
  docker/docker-entrypoint.sh:14      # CSI_SOURCE — data source: auto (default), ...
  main.rs:6435                        info!("No hardware detected, using simulation"); "simulate"

The sensing-server's `auto` source resolver at main.rs:6425-6440
silently fell back to synthetic with only an `info!` log line as the
signal. Downstream consumers calling `/api/v1/sensing/latest` or
`/ws/sensing` had no in-band way to know they were being served fake
data.

Fix

`auto` now refuses to fall back. When neither ESP32 UDP nor host WiFi
is detected, the server logs a clear `error!` explaining the situation
and exits 78 (EX_CONFIG). The error message names the two ways to
proceed: provision real hardware, or set `--source simulated` /
`CSI_SOURCE=simulated` explicitly. Existing operators who already use
`--source simulated` (or its legacy `simulate` alias) are unaffected —
the alias is preserved for back-compat.

Docker entrypoint comment, docker-compose comment, and the Tauri
desktop app's source-default path also updated to reflect the new
posture. The desktop app keeps its `simulated` default because it's
an explicit demo product — the value passed downstream is the
*explicit* `simulated`, not `auto`, so the server tags it correctly
and never lies about its data source.

Validation

  cargo build  -p wifi-densepose-sensing-server --no-default-features
  cargo test   -p wifi-densepose-sensing-server --no-default-features
  → 122 / 122 pass, build clean (existing pre-fix warnings unchanged).

Deployment

⚠ Breaking change for unattended deployments that relied on the
`auto → simulated` silent fallback. That is exactly the failure mode
this PR fixes: pretending to serve real sensing data when the source
is fake. Operators who genuinely want demo mode set
`CSI_SOURCE=simulated` explicitly; the error message and the
docker-compose comment both point them there.
2026-06-08 18:07:39 +02:00
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wifi-densepose-sensing-server

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Lightweight Axum server for real-time WiFi sensing with RuVector signal processing.

Overview

wifi-densepose-sensing-server is the operational backend for WiFi-DensePose. It receives raw CSI frames from ESP32 hardware over UDP, runs them through the RuVector-powered signal processing pipeline, and broadcasts processed sensing updates to browser clients via WebSocket. A built-in static file server hosts the sensing UI on the same port.

The crate ships both a library (wifi_densepose_sensing_server) exposing the training and inference modules, and a binary (sensing-server) that starts the full server stack.

Integrates wifi-densepose-wifiscan for multi-BSSID WiFi scanning per ADR-022 Phase 3.

Features

  • UDP CSI ingestion -- Receives ESP32 CSI frames on port 5005 and parses them into the internal CsiFrame representation.
  • Vital sign detection -- Pure-Rust FFT-based breathing rate (0.1--0.5 Hz) and heart rate (0.67--2.0 Hz) estimation from CSI amplitude time series (ADR-021).
  • RVF container -- Standalone binary container format for packaging model weights, metadata, and configuration into a single .rvf file with 64-byte aligned segments.
  • RVF pipeline -- Progressive model loading with streaming segment decoding.
  • Graph Transformer -- Cross-attention bottleneck between antenna-space CSI features and the COCO 17-keypoint body graph, followed by GCN message passing (ADR-023 Phase 2). Pure std, no ML dependencies.
  • SONA adaptation -- LoRA + EWC++ online adaptation for environment drift without catastrophic forgetting (ADR-023 Phase 5).
  • Contrastive CSI embeddings -- Self-supervised SimCLR-style pretraining with InfoNCE loss, projection head, fingerprint indexing, and cross-modal pose alignment (ADR-024).
  • Sparse inference -- Activation profiling, sparse matrix-vector multiply, INT8/FP16 quantization, and a full sparse inference engine for edge deployment (ADR-023 Phase 6).
  • Dataset pipeline -- Training dataset loading and batching.
  • Multi-BSSID scanning -- Windows netsh integration for BSSID discovery via wifi-densepose-wifiscan (ADR-022).
  • WebSocket broadcast -- Real-time sensing updates pushed to all connected clients at ws://localhost:8765/ws/sensing.
  • Static file serving -- Hosts the sensing UI on port 8080 with CORS headers.

Modules

Module Description
vital_signs Breathing and heart rate extraction via FFT spectral analysis
rvf_container RVF binary format builder and reader
rvf_pipeline Progressive model loading from RVF containers
graph_transformer Graph Transformer + GCN for CSI-to-pose estimation
trainer Training loop orchestration
dataset Training data loading and batching
sona LoRA adapters and EWC++ continual learning
sparse_inference Neuron profiling, sparse matmul, INT8/FP16 quantization
embedding Contrastive CSI embedding model and fingerprint index

Quick Start

# Build the server
cargo build -p wifi-densepose-sensing-server

# Run with default settings (HTTP :8080, UDP :5005, WS :8765)
cargo run -p wifi-densepose-sensing-server

# Run with custom ports
cargo run -p wifi-densepose-sensing-server -- \
    --http-port 9000 \
    --udp-port 5005 \
    --static-dir ./ui

Using as a library

use wifi_densepose_sensing_server::vital_signs::VitalSignDetector;

// Create a detector with 20 Hz sample rate
let mut detector = VitalSignDetector::new(20.0);

// Feed CSI amplitude samples
for amplitude in csi_amplitudes.iter() {
    detector.push_sample(*amplitude);
}

// Extract vital signs
if let Some(vitals) = detector.detect() {
    println!("Breathing: {:.1} BPM", vitals.breathing_rate_bpm);
    println!("Heart rate: {:.0} BPM", vitals.heart_rate_bpm);
}

Architecture

ESP32 ──UDP:5005──> [ CSI Receiver ]
                          |
                    [ Signal Pipeline ]
                    (vital_signs, graph_transformer, sona)
                          |
                    [ WebSocket Broadcast ]
                          |
Browser <──WS:8765── [ Axum Server :8080 ] ──> Static UI files
Crate Role
wifi-densepose-wifiscan Multi-BSSID WiFi scanning (ADR-022)
wifi-densepose-core Shared types and traits
wifi-densepose-signal CSI signal processing algorithms
wifi-densepose-hardware ESP32 hardware interfaces
wifi-densepose-wasm Browser WASM bindings for the sensing UI
wifi-densepose-train Full training pipeline with ruvector
wifi-densepose-mat Disaster detection module

License

MIT OR Apache-2.0