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ruvnet--RuView/docs/adr
ruv a4bd2308b7 feat: ADR-069 ESP32 CSI → Cognitum Seed RVF pipeline (v0.5.4-esp32)
Hardware-validated pipeline connecting ESP32-S3 CSI sensing to Cognitum
Seed (Pi Zero 2 W) edge intelligence appliance via 8-dim feature vectors.

Firmware:
- New 48-byte feature vector packet (magic 0xC5110003) at 1 Hz with
  normalized presence, motion, breathing, heart rate, phase variance,
  person count, fall detection, and RSSI
- Compressed frame magic reassigned 0xC5110003 → 0xC5110005
- Guard against uninitialized s_top_k read when count=0

Bridge (scripts/seed_csi_bridge.py):
- UDP→HTTPS ingest with bearer token, hash-based vector IDs
- --validate (kNN), --stats, --compact, --allowed-sources modes
- NaN/inf rejection, retry logic, SEED_TOKEN env var support

Validated on live hardware:
- 941 vectors ingested, 100% kNN exact match
- Witness chain SHA-256 verified (1,325 entries)
- 1,463 Rust tests passed, Python proof VERDICT: PASS

Research: 26 docs covering Arena Physica, Maxwell's equations in WiFi
sensing, SOTA survey 2025-2026, GOAP implementation plan

Security: removed hardcoded credentials, added NVS patterns to
.gitignore, source IP filtering, NaN validation

Co-Authored-By: claude-flow <ruv@ruv.net>
2026-04-02 19:32:18 -04:00
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Architecture Decision Records

This folder contains 44 Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) that document every significant technical choice in the RuView / WiFi-DensePose project.

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

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

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

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

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

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