Two open questions from §5 promoted to decisions in §2:
§2.1.c — Topology: one HAP bridge, N child accessories. Single pairing
flow; child accessories assignable to rooms in the Apple Home
app; matches every reference HomeKit bridge UX (Hue, Eve, ...).
The N-independent-accessories alternative was rejected for the
room-multiplication mess it creates after the second pairing.
§2.1.d — Identity-risk mapping is semantic, not probabilistic. The
raw `identity_risk_score` and Soul-Signature match probability
NEVER cross the HAP boundary. Instead we expose three thresholded
semantic events: `Unknown Presence`, `Unexpected Occupancy`,
`Unrecognized Activity Pattern`. Naming is the contract — these
read as ambient awareness, not threat detection, so RuView does
not become "RF surveillance with an Apple skin." This is the
decision that determines whether the HomeKit story ages well.
§5 trimmed to two genuinely-open items: setup-code derivation
(deterministic vs random) and ESP32-direct HAP advertisement.
Co-Authored-By: claude-flow <ruv@ruv.net>
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:
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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.
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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.
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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 |
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 |
| ADR-115 | Home Assistant integration via MQTT auto-discovery + Matter bridge (HA-DISCO + HA-FABRIC + HA-MIND) | Accepted (MQTT track) / Proposed (Matter SDK P8b) |
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 |
Related
- DDD Domain Models — Bounded context definitions, aggregate roots, and ubiquitous language
- User Guide — Setup, API reference, and hardware instructions
- Build Guide — Building from source