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Claude a1a59baf72 feat(ruview-unified): unified RF spatial world model P1 (ADR-273..278)
One shared representation instead of another isolated RF classifier: new
v2 leaf crate ruview-unified implementing all five ADR-273 pillars, plus
six ADRs with measured, grade-labeled results.

- Canonical RfTensor + fail-closed hardware adapter registry (802.11 CSI
  via wifi-densepose-core::CsiFrame, FMCW radar cubes, UWB CIR, 5G SRS);
  shared layout/gain/phase normalization proven by tests (ADR-274).
- Universal RF foundation encoder: CFO-aligned, median-scaled tokenizer;
  masked-reconstruction pretraining with hand-derived backprop verified
  against central finite differences (max rel err 1.31e-5 over all 12
  parameter groups); fusion contract z = Enc ⊙ σ(AgeEnc) + GeomEnc;
  task adapters under the 1% budget (129/268/387/2 params vs 40,856
  backbone), enforced by test.
- RF-aware Gaussian spatial memory: anisotropic primitives with per-band
  reflectivity, confidence-weighted fusion, decay, spatial-hash/semantic
  queries, closed-form Beer-Lambert channel gain (exact Friis on empty
  map), inverse gain updates (unseen 6.1 dB wall learned to <0.5 dB in
  20 observations), task-gated scene graph (ADR-275).
- Physics-guided synthetic RF worlds: image-method multipath (order ≤2),
  complex-permittivity Fresnel materials, emergent Doppler proven against
  the analytic phase rate, seeded ChaCha20 randomization of physics and
  hardware nuisances; byte-deterministic per seed (ADR-276).
- Edge sensing control plane: 802.11bf/ETSI-ISAC-aligned purposes/zones,
  fail-closed authorization, double-gated identity, retention bounds;
  BoundedEvent-only trust boundary makes raw RF export unrepresentable
  (ADR-277). Radar inverse rendering stays a gated research program
  (ADR-278, no code by design).

Anti-leakage acceptance pipeline (strict splits by room/day/person/
chipset/firmware/layout with independent disjointness verification):
presence F1 1.00 on held-out rooms and held-out chipset, degradation
0.0, ECE 0.012, p95 latency 2.0 ms debug / 105 µs release — ALL
SYNTHETIC until P2 real-data validation.

Benchmarks + optimization pass: channel_gain 139→27 µs (O(1) in map
size via segment-corridor AABB sweep), observe_link 305→74 µs, DFT
twiddle plan 4.9x; hash/linear crossover (~4k Gaussians) reported
honestly.

Tests: ruview-unified 66 unit + 3 acceptance, 0 failed; workspace
3,771 passed 0 failed (--exclude wifi-densepose-desktop: GTK headers
unavailable in this container). Python proof: VERDICT PASS. Also
gitignore sensing-server test-run artifacts (incl. generated
session-secret).

Co-Authored-By: claude-flow <ruv@ruv.net>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Q1R5zhz6sSfXGRXpgBwpFX
2026-07-26 19:03:39 +00:00

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Architecture Decision Records

Latest proposed decisions:

This folder contains 193 Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) that document every significant technical choice in the RuView / WiFi-DensePose project. (The index tables below list a curated subset per domain; see the directory listing for the full set.)

Why ADRs?

Building a system that turns WiFi signals into human pose estimation involves hundreds of non-obvious decisions: which signal processing algorithms to use, how to bridge ESP32 firmware to a Rust pipeline, whether to run inference on-device or on a server, how to handle multi-person separation with limited subcarriers.

ADRs capture the context, options considered, decision made, and consequences for each of these choices. They serve three purposes:

  1. Institutional memory — Six months from now, anyone (human or AI) can read why we chose IIR bandpass filters over FIR for vital sign extraction, not just see the code.

  2. AI-assisted development — When an AI agent works on this codebase, ADRs give it the constraints and rationale it needs to make changes that align with the existing architecture. Without them, AI-generated code tends to drift — reinventing patterns that already exist, contradicting earlier decisions, or optimizing for the wrong tradeoffs.

  3. Review checkpoints — Each ADR is a reviewable artifact. When a proposed change touches the architecture, the ADR forces the author to articulate tradeoffs before writing code, not after.

ADRs and Domain-Driven Design

The project uses Domain-Driven Design (DDD) to organize code into bounded contexts — each with its own language, types, and responsibilities. ADRs and DDD work together:

  • ADRs define boundaries: ADR-029 (RuvSense) established multistatic sensing as a separate bounded context from single-node CSI. ADR-042 (CHCI) defined a new aggregate root for coherent channel imaging.
  • DDD models define the language: The RuvSense domain model defines terms like "coherence gate", "dwell time", and "TDM slot" that ADRs reference precisely.
  • Together they prevent drift: An AI agent reading ADR-039 knows that edge processing tiers are configured via NVS keys, not compile-time flags — because the ADR says so. The DDD model tells it which aggregate owns that configuration.

How ADRs are structured

Each ADR follows a consistent format:

  • Context — What problem or gap prompted this decision
  • Decision — What we chose to do and how
  • Consequences — What improved, what got harder, and what risks remain
  • References — Related ADRs, papers, and code paths

Statuses: Proposed (under discussion), Accepted (approved and/or implemented), Superseded (replaced by a later ADR).


ADR Index

Hardware and firmware

ADR Title Status
ADR-012 ESP32 CSI Sensor Mesh for Distributed Sensing Accepted (partial)
ADR-018 ESP32 Development Implementation Path Proposed
ADR-028 ESP32 Capability Audit and Witness Record Accepted
ADR-029 RuvSense Multistatic Sensing Mode (TDM, channel hopping) Proposed
ADR-032 Multistatic Mesh Security Hardening Accepted
ADR-039 ESP32-S3 Edge Intelligence Pipeline (on-device vitals) Accepted (hardware-validated)
ADR-040 WASM Programmable Sensing (Tier 3) Accepted
ADR-041 WASM Module Collection (65 edge modules) Accepted (hardware-validated)
ADR-044 Provisioning Tool Enhancements Proposed
ADR-110 ESP32-C6 firmware extension — Wi-Fi 6 / 802.15.4 / TWT / LP-core Accepted, P1-P10 complete, firmware-side substrate closed at v0.7.0-esp32. Companion docs: WITNESS-LOG-110 (13 §A0.x entries · 99.56 % cross-board RX · 104.1 µs smoothed sync stdev · ≤100 µs target met), ADR-110-REVIEW-GUIDE (one-page reviewer tour), ADR-110-BRANCH-STATE (coordination map vs feat/adr-115-ha-mqtt-matter). Host decoders + tests: Python SyncPacketParser (10) + Rust wifi_densepose_hardware::SyncPacket (15), cross-language hex pin gates drift.

Signal processing and sensing

ADR Title Status
ADR-013 Feature-Level Sensing on Commodity Gear Accepted
ADR-014 SOTA Signal Processing Algorithms Accepted
ADR-021 Vital Sign Detection (breathing, heart rate) Partial
ADR-030 Persistent Field Model and Drift Detection Proposed
ADR-033 CRV Signal Line Sensing Integration Proposed
ADR-037 Multi-Person Pose Detection from Single ESP32 Proposed
ADR-042 Coherent Human Channel Imaging (beyond CSI) Proposed
ADR-134 First-Class Channel Impulse Response (CIR) Support Proposed
ADR-135 Empty-Room Baseline Calibration (per-subcarrier Welford statistics) Proposed

Machine learning and training

ADR Title Status
ADR-005 SONA Self-Learning for Pose Estimation Partial
ADR-006 GNN-Enhanced CSI Pattern Recognition Partial
ADR-015 Public Dataset Strategy (MM-Fi, Wi-Pose) Accepted
ADR-016 RuVector Training Pipeline Integration Accepted
ADR-017 RuVector Signal + MAT Integration Proposed
ADR-020 Migrate AI Inference to Rust (ONNX Runtime) Accepted
ADR-023 Trained DensePose Model with RuVector Pipeline Proposed
ADR-024 Project AETHER: Contrastive CSI Embeddings Required
ADR-027 Project MERIDIAN: Cross-Environment Generalization Proposed
ADR-149 AetherArena: public spatial-intelligence benchmark on Hugging Face Proposed
ADR-150 RF Foundation Encoder: pose-preserving, subject/room/device-invariant CSI embedding Proposed
ADR-151 Per-Room Calibration & Specialized Model Training (room-first → bank of small ruVector specialists) Proposed
ADR-152 WiFi-Pose SOTA 2026 Intake: geometry-conditioned calibration, external benchmarks, foundation-encoder recipe Proposed

Platform and UI

ADR Title Status
ADR-019 Sensing-Only UI with Gaussian Splats Accepted
ADR-022 Windows WiFi Enhanced Fidelity (multi-BSSID) Partial
ADR-025 macOS CoreWLAN WiFi Sensing Proposed
ADR-031 RuView Sensing-First RF Mode Proposed
ADR-034 Expo React Native Mobile App Accepted
ADR-035 Live Sensing UI Accuracy and Data Transparency Accepted
ADR-036 Training Pipeline UI Integration Proposed
ADR-043 Sensing Server UI API Completion (14 endpoints) Accepted
ADR-115 Home Assistant integration via MQTT auto-discovery + Matter bridge (HA-DISCO + HA-FABRIC + HA-MIND) Accepted (MQTT track) / Proposed (Matter SDK P8b)
ADR-169 adam-mode — light theme toggle for the three.js realtime demo Proposed
ADR-170 yoga-mode — yoga pose detection, classification, and scoring for the three.js realtime demo Proposed

Architecture and infrastructure

ADR Title Status
ADR-001 WiFi-Mat Disaster Detection Architecture Accepted
ADR-002 RuVector RVF Integration Strategy Superseded
ADR-003 RVF Cognitive Containers for CSI Proposed
ADR-004 HNSW Vector Search for Fingerprinting Partial
ADR-007 Post-Quantum Cryptography for Sensing Proposed
ADR-008 Distributed Consensus for Multi-AP Proposed
ADR-009 RVF WASM Runtime for Edge Deployment Proposed
ADR-010 Witness Chains for Audit Trail Integrity Proposed
ADR-011 Proof-of-Reality and Mock Elimination Proposed
ADR-026 Survivor Track Lifecycle (MAT crate) Accepted
ADR-038 Sublinear GOAP for Roadmap Optimization Proposed
ADR-095 rvCSI — Edge RF Sensing Runtime Platform Proposed
ADR-096 rvCSI — Crate Topology, the napi-c Shim, and the napi-rs Node Surface Proposed
ADR-097 Adopt rvCSI as RuView's primary CSI runtime (phased adoption) Proposed
ADR-098 Evaluate ruvnet/midstream for RuView's CSI / WebSocket / mesh pipeline Rejected
ADR-099 Adopt midstream as RuView's real-time introspection + low-latency tap Proposed
ADR-263 @ruvnet/ruview npm harness — deep review + optimization strategy Proposed
ADR-264 @ruvnet/rvagent MCP server + @ruv/ruview-cli — deep review + optimization strategy Proposed
ADR-265 RuView npm distribution strategy — CI gate, provenance, version single-sourcing, namespace Proposed
ADR-273 Unified RF spatial world model — umbrella, anti-leakage protocol, acceptance gates Accepted (P1 implemented)
ADR-274 Universal RF foundation encoder + hardware adapter registry Accepted (P1 implemented)
ADR-275 RF-aware Gaussian spatial memory Accepted (P1 implemented)
ADR-276 Physics-guided synthetic RF world generator Accepted (P1 implemented)
ADR-277 Edge sensing control plane (802.11bf / ETSI ISAC aligned) Accepted (P1 implemented)
ADR-278 Radar inverse rendering + differentiable RF SLAM research program Proposed

  • DDD Domain Models — Bounded context definitions, aggregate roots, and ubiquitous language
  • User Guide — Setup, API reference, and hardware instructions
  • Build Guide — Building from source