Healthcare facility
Monitors patient breathing and movement overnight without installing cameras in patient rooms, avoiding imaging privacy regulations.
Open source alternative to AWS IoT
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Monitor occupancy, breathing, heart rate, and movement from WiFi signals with ESP32 sensors that run fully on local edge hardware.
Monitors patient breathing and movement overnight without installing cameras in patient rooms, avoiding imaging privacy regulations.
Counts occupancy across meeting rooms using existing WiFi infrastructure and adjusts HVAC automatically.
Builds a fall-detection system for elderly care that alerts a caregiver when no motion is detected for an extended period.
Measures dwell time and foot traffic patterns without video surveillance to comply with privacy regulations.
Uses the Docker image to prototype and validate signal-processing pipelines before committing to hardware deployment.
Occupancy sensors require line-of-sight, cameras create privacy concerns and regulatory friction under GDPR and HIPAA, and wearable health monitors only work when someone remembers to put them on. Building a system that can detect presence, vital signs, and activity across a space typically means choosing between invasive video surveillance, expensive dedicated radar hardware, or passive infrared sensors that miss stationary occupants entirely.
Detects presence, breathing rate (6-30 BPM), and heart rate (40-120 BPM) through walls using WiFi Channel State Information (CSI)
Estimates 17 COCO body keypoints (pose skeleton) from WiFi signals using the WiFlow neural architecture, no cameras needed
Runs entirely on edge hardware: an ESP32-S3 mesh ($9 per node) with no cloud, no internet required after setup
Multi-frequency mesh scanning across 6 WiFi channels, using nearby access points as passive radar illuminators at no extra cost
Full system BOM around $140 including a Cognitum Seed for persistent vector storage and cryptographic attestation
Docker image available for simulation and pipeline evaluation without any hardware
RuView is an MIT-licensed open-source edge-AI alternative to AWS IoT Greengrass, Amazon Bedrock Agents, and Datadog edge monitoring for teams experimenting with local sensing, WiFi CSI, and real-time physical-space analytics.
vs AWS IoT Greengrass: AWS IoT Greengrass helps teams build, deploy, and manage device software, run local processing, and perform machine-learning inference across edge devices. RuView is narrower and more experimental: it focuses on WiFi DensePose, ESP32 CSI data, pose estimation, vital signs, WebSocket streams, and Docker-based demos. RuView is better for research teams that want open sensing pipelines they can inspect and modify. Greengrass is still better for production fleet management, AWS integration, and managed deployment controls.
vs Amazon Bedrock Agents: Bedrock Agents orchestrate foundation models, data sources, APIs, memory, monitoring, encryption, and permissions for hosted generative-AI apps. RuView is not a hosted agent platform. It is a sensing and edge-processing stack that can expose live sensor data and local analytics to applications. Bedrock Agents are still better when the main job is building managed customer-facing AI workflows.
vs Datadog: Datadog provides top-to-bottom edge fleet monitoring, dashboards, logs, and drill-down troubleshooting across device dimensions. RuView is better when teams need local signal processing and visual sensing output, not a managed observability SaaS. Datadog is still better for production alerts, operational reporting, and cross-fleet monitoring.
Self-host the Docker demo for local evaluation or lab deployment.
docker run -p 3000:3000 ruvnet/wifi-densepose:latestFor full sensing (presence, vital signs, pose), you need an ESP32-S3 ($9) for CSI capture. The Docker image runs on simulated data with any computer. Consumer WiFi laptops provide only coarse RSSI-based presence detection.
Through-wall detection works up to about 5 meters using Fresnel zone geometry and multipath modeling. Accuracy degrades with distance and wall density; denser building materials reduce effective range.
No. RuView processes everything on edge hardware. The Cognitum Seed adds persistent vector storage and kNN search locally. Internet access is not required after initial firmware flashing.
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Keep it running 24/7, even when your laptop is off. A Hostinger VPS gives it a server of its own.
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