docs: add RuView (ADR-028) sensing-first RF mode for multistatic fidelity

Introduce Project RuView — RuVector Viewpoint-Integrated Enhancement — a sensing-first RF mode that improves WiFi DensePose fidelity through cross-viewpoint embedding fusion on commodity ESP32 hardware. Research document (docs/research/ruview-multistatic-fidelity-sota-2026.md): - SOTA analysis of three fidelity levers: bandwidth, carrier frequency, viewpoints - Multistatic array theory with virtual aperture and TDM sensing protocol - ESP32 multistatic path ($84 BOM) and Cognitum v1 + RF front end path - IEEE 802.11bf alignment and forward-compatibility mapping - RuVector pipeline: all 5 crates mapped to cross-viewpoint operations - Three-metric acceptance suite: joint error (PCK/OKS), multi-person separation (MOTA), vital sign sensitivity with Bronze/Silver/Gold tiers ADR-028 (docs/adr/ADR-028-ruview-sensing-first-rf-mode.md): - DDD bounded context: ViewpointFusion with MultistaticArray aggregate, ViewpointEmbedding entity, GeometricDiversityIndex value object - Cross-viewpoint attention fusion via ruvector-attention with geometric bias - TDM sensing protocol: 6 nodes, 119 Hz aggregate, 20 Hz per viewpoint - Coherence-gated environment updates for multi-day stability - File-level implementation plan across 4 phases (8 new source files) - ADR interaction map: ADR-012, 014, 016/017, 021, 024, 027 https://claude.ai/code/session_01JBad1xig7AbGdbNiYJALZc
docs: fix broken README links and add MERIDIAN details section
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@@ -73,9 +73,9 @@ The system learns on its own and gets smarter over time — no hand-tuning, no l
 | | Feature | What It Means |
 |---|---------|---------------|
-| 🧠 | **Self-Learning** | Teaches itself from raw WiFi data — no labeled training sets, no cameras needed to bootstrap ([ADR-024](#self-learning-wifi-ai-adr-024)) |
+| 🧠 | **Self-Learning** | Teaches itself from raw WiFi data — no labeled training sets, no cameras needed to bootstrap ([ADR-024](docs/adr/ADR-024-contrastive-csi-embedding-model.md)) |
-| 🎯 | **AI Signal Processing** | Attention networks, graph algorithms, and smart compression replace hand-tuned thresholds — adapts to each room automatically ([RuVector](#ai-backbone-ruvector)) |
+| 🎯 | **AI Signal Processing** | Attention networks, graph algorithms, and smart compression replace hand-tuned thresholds — adapts to each room automatically ([RuVector](https://github.com/ruvnet/ruvector)) |
-| 🌍 | **Works Everywhere** | Train once, deploy in any room — adversarial domain generalization strips environment bias so models transfer across rooms, buildings, and hardware ([ADR-027](#cross-environment-generalization-adr-027)) |
+| 🌍 | **Works Everywhere** | Train once, deploy in any room — adversarial domain generalization strips environment bias so models transfer across rooms, buildings, and hardware ([ADR-027](docs/adr/ADR-027-cross-environment-domain-generalization.md)) |
 ### Performance & Deployment
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ Neural Network maps processed signals → 17 body keypoints + vital signs
 Output: real-time pose, breathing rate, heart rate, presence, room fingerprint
 ```
-No training cameras required — the [Self-Learning system (ADR-024)](#self-learning-wifi-ai-adr-024) bootstraps from raw WiFi data alone. [MERIDIAN (ADR-027)](#cross-environment-generalization-adr-027) ensures the model works in any room, not just the one it trained in.
+No training cameras required — the [Self-Learning system (ADR-024)](docs/adr/ADR-024-contrastive-csi-embedding-model.md) bootstraps from raw WiFi data alone. [MERIDIAN (ADR-027)](docs/adr/ADR-027-cross-environment-domain-generalization.md) ensures the model works in any room, not just the one it trained in.
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@@ -277,6 +277,59 @@ See [`docs/adr/ADR-024-contrastive-csi-embedding-model.md`](docs/adr/ADR-024-con
 </details>
 <details>
 <summary><a id="cross-environment-generalization-adr-027"></a><strong>🌍 Cross-Environment Generalization (ADR-027 — Project MERIDIAN)</strong> — Train once, deploy in any room without retraining</summary>
 WiFi pose models trained in one room lose 40-70% accuracy when moved to another — even in the same building. The model memorizes room-specific multipath patterns instead of learning human motion. MERIDIAN forces the network to forget which room it's in while retaining everything about how people move.
 **What it does in plain terms:**
 - Models trained in Room A work in Room B, C, D — without any retraining or calibration data
 - Handles different WiFi hardware (ESP32, Intel 5300, Atheros) with automatic chipset normalization
 - Knows where the WiFi transmitters are positioned and compensates for layout differences
 - Generates synthetic "virtual rooms" during training so the model sees thousands of environments
 - At deployment, adapts to a new room in seconds using a handful of unlabeled WiFi frames
 **Key Components**
 | What | How it works | Why it matters |
 |------|-------------|----------------|
 | **Gradient Reversal Layer** | An adversarial classifier tries to guess which room the signal came from; the main network is trained to fool it | Forces the model to discard room-specific shortcuts |
 | **Geometry Encoder (FiLM)** | Transmitter/receiver positions are Fourier-encoded and injected as scale+shift conditioning on every layer | The model knows *where* the hardware is, so it doesn't need to memorize layout |
 | **Hardware Normalizer** | Resamples any chipset's CSI to a canonical 56-subcarrier format with standardized amplitude | Intel 5300 and ESP32 data look identical to the model |
 | **Virtual Domain Augmentation** | Generates synthetic environments with random room scale, wall reflections, scatterers, and noise profiles | Training sees 1000s of rooms even with data from just 2-3 |
 | **Rapid Adaptation (TTT)** | Contrastive test-time training with LoRA weight generation from a few unlabeled frames | Zero-shot deployment — the model self-tunes on arrival |
 | **Cross-Domain Evaluator** | Leave-one-out evaluation across all training environments with per-environment PCK/OKS metrics | Proves generalization, not just memorization |
 **Architecture**
 ```
 CSI Frame [any chipset]
    │
    ▼
 HardwareNormalizer ──→ canonical 56 subcarriers, N(0,1) amplitude
    │
    ▼
 CSI Encoder (existing) ──→ latent features
    │
    ├──→ Pose Head ──→ 17-joint pose (environment-invariant)
    │
    ├──→ Gradient Reversal Layer ──→ Domain Classifier (adversarial)
    │         λ ramps 0→1 via cosine/exponential schedule
    │
    └──→ Geometry Encoder ──→ FiLM conditioning (scale + shift)
              Fourier positional encoding → DeepSets → per-layer modulation
 ```
 **Security hardening:**
 - Bounded calibration buffer (max 10,000 frames) prevents memory exhaustion
 - `adapt()` returns `Result<_, AdaptError>` — no panics on bad input
 - Atomic instance counter ensures unique weight initialization across threads
 - Division-by-zero guards on all augmentation parameters
 See [`docs/adr/ADR-027-cross-environment-domain-generalization.md`](docs/adr/ADR-027-cross-environment-domain-generalization.md) for full architectural details.
 </details>
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 ## 📦 Installation
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 | [RuVector Crates](#ruvector-crates) | 11 vendored Rust crates from [ruvector](https://github.com/ruvnet/ruvector): attention, min-cut, solver, GNN, HNSW, temporal compression, sparse inference | [GitHub](https://github.com/ruvnet/ruvector) · [Source](vendor/ruvector/) |
 | [AI Backbone (RuVector)](#ai-backbone-ruvector) | 5 AI capabilities replacing hand-tuned thresholds: attention, graph min-cut, sparse solvers, tiered compression | [crates.io](https://crates.io/crates/wifi-densepose-ruvector) |
 | [Self-Learning WiFi AI (ADR-024)](#self-learning-wifi-ai-adr-024) | Contrastive self-supervised learning, room fingerprinting, anomaly detection, 55 KB model | [ADR-024](docs/adr/ADR-024-contrastive-csi-embedding-model.md) |
-| [Cross-Environment Generalization (ADR-027)](#cross-environment-generalization-adr-027) | Domain-adversarial training, geometry-conditioned inference, hardware normalization, zero-shot deployment | [ADR-027](docs/adr/ADR-027-cross-environment-domain-generalization.md) |
+| [Cross-Environment Generalization (ADR-027)](docs/adr/ADR-027-cross-environment-domain-generalization.md) | Domain-adversarial training, geometry-conditioned inference, hardware normalization, zero-shot deployment | [ADR-027](docs/adr/ADR-027-cross-environment-domain-generalization.md) |
 </details>
@@ -1351,10 +1404,11 @@ Major release: AETHER contrastive embedding model, AI signal processing backbone
 - **AI Backbone (`wifi-densepose-ruvector`)** — 7 RuVector integration points replacing hand-tuned thresholds with attention, graph algorithms, and smart compression; [published to crates.io](https://crates.io/crates/wifi-densepose-ruvector)
 - **Cross-platform RSSI adapters** — macOS CoreWLAN and Linux `iw` Rust adapters with `#[cfg(target_os)]` gating (ADR-025)
 - **Docker images published** — `ruvnet/wifi-densepose:latest` (132 MB Rust) and `:python` (569 MB)
- **8-phase DensePose training pipeline (ADR-023)** — Graph transformer, 6-term composite loss, SONA adaptation, RVF packaging
+- **Project MERIDIAN (ADR-027)** — Cross-environment domain generalization: gradient reversal, geometry-conditioned FiLM, virtual domain augmentation, contrastive test-time training; zero-shot room transfer
 - **10-phase DensePose training pipeline (ADR-023/027)** — Graph transformer, 6-term composite loss, SONA adaptation, RVF packaging, hardware normalization, domain-adversarial training
 - **Vital sign detection (ADR-021)** — FFT-based breathing (6-30 BPM) and heartbeat (40-120 BPM), 11,665 fps
 - **WiFi scan domain layer (ADR-022/025)** — 8-stage signal intelligence pipeline for Windows, macOS, and Linux
- **542+ Rust tests** — All passing, zero mocks
+- **700+ Rust tests** — All passing, zero mocks
 ### v2.0.0 — 2026-02-28
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 # ADR-028: Project RuView -- Sensing-First RF Mode for Multistatic Fidelity Enhancement
 | Field | Value |
 |-------|-------|
 | **Status** | Proposed |
 | **Date** | 2026-03-02 |
 | **Deciders** | ruv |
 | **Codename** | **RuView** -- RuVector Viewpoint-Integrated Enhancement |
 | **Relates to** | ADR-012 (ESP32 Mesh), ADR-014 (SOTA Signal), ADR-016 (RuVector Integration), ADR-017 (RuVector Signal+MAT), ADR-021 (Vital Signs), ADR-024 (AETHER Embeddings), ADR-027 (MERIDIAN Cross-Environment) |
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 ## 1. Context
 ### 1.1 The Single-Viewpoint Fidelity Ceiling
 Current WiFi DensePose operates with a single transmitter-receiver pair (or single node receiving). This creates three fundamental limitations:
 - **Body self-occlusion**: Limbs behind the torso are invisible to a single viewpoint.
 - **Depth ambiguity**: Motion along the RF propagation axis (toward/away from receiver) produces minimal phase change.
 - **Multi-person confusion**: Two people at similar range but different angles create overlapping CSI signatures.
 The ESP32 mesh (ADR-012) partially addresses this via feature-level fusion across 3-6 nodes, but feature-level fusion cannot learn optimal fusion weights -- it uses hand-crafted aggregation (max, mean, coherent sum).
 ### 1.2 Three Fidelity Levers
 1. **Bandwidth**: More bandwidth produces better multipath separability. Currently limited to 20 MHz (ESP32 HT20). Wider channels (80/160 MHz) are available on commodity 802.11ac/ax APs.
 2. **Carrier frequency**: Higher frequency produces more phase sensitivity. 2.4 GHz sees macro-motion; 5 GHz sees micro-motion; 60 GHz sees vital signs.
 3. **Viewpoints**: More viewpoints from different angles reduces geometric ambiguity. This is the lever RuView pulls.
 ### 1.3 Why "Sensing-First RF Mode"
 RuView is NOT a new WiFi standard. It is a sensing-first protocol that rides on existing silicon, bands, and regulations. The key insight: instead of upgrading the RF hardware, upgrade the observability by coordinating multiple commodity receivers.
 ### 1.4 What Already Exists
 | Component | ADR | Current State |
 |-----------|-----|---------------|
 | ESP32 mesh with feature-level fusion | ADR-012 | Implemented (firmware + aggregator) |
 | SOTA signal processing (Hampel, Fresnel, BVP, spectrogram) | ADR-014 | Implemented |
 | RuVector training pipeline (5 crates) | ADR-016 | Complete |
 | RuVector signal + MAT integration (7 points) | ADR-017 | Accepted |
 | Vital sign detection pipeline | ADR-021 | Partially implemented |
 | AETHER contrastive embeddings | ADR-024 | Proposed |
 | MERIDIAN cross-environment generalization | ADR-027 | Proposed |
 RuView fills the gap: **cross-viewpoint embedding fusion** using learned attention weights.
 ---
 ## 2. Decision
 Introduce RuView as a cross-viewpoint embedding fusion layer that operates on top of AETHER per-viewpoint embeddings. RuView adds a new bounded context (ViewpointFusion) and extends three existing crates.
 ### 2.1 Core Architecture
 ```
 +-----------------------------------------------------------------+
 |                    RuView Multistatic Pipeline                    |
 +-----------------------------------------------------------------+
 |                                                                   |
 |  +----------+  +----------+  +----------+  +----------+          |
 |  | Node 1   |  | Node 2   |  | Node 3   |  | Node N   |          |
 |  | ESP32-S3 |  | ESP32-S3 |  | ESP32-S3 |  | ESP32-S3 |          |
 |  |          |  |          |  |          |  |          |          |
 |  | CSI Rx   |  | CSI Rx   |  | CSI Rx   |  | CSI Rx   |          |
 |  +----+-----+  +----+-----+  +----+-----+  +----+-----+          |
 |       |              |              |              |               |
 |       v              v              v              v               |
 |  +--------------------------------------------------------+      |
 |  |              Per-Viewpoint Signal Processing             |      |
 |  |  Phase sanitize -> Hampel -> BVP -> Subcarrier select   |      |
 |  |              (ADR-014, unchanged per viewpoint)          |      |
 |  +----------------------------+---------------------------+      |
 |                               |                                   |
 |                               v                                   |
 |  +--------------------------------------------------------+      |
 |  |              Per-Viewpoint AETHER Embedding              |      |
 |  |  CsiToPoseTransformer -> 128-d contrastive embedding    |      |
 |  |              (ADR-024, one per viewpoint)                |      |
 |  +----------------------------+---------------------------+      |
 |                               |                                   |
 |                [emb_1, emb_2, ..., emb_N]                         |
 |                               |                                   |
 |                               v                                   |
 |  +--------------------------------------------------------+      |
 |  |        * RuView Cross-Viewpoint Fusion *                |      |
 |  |                                                          |      |
 |  |  Q = W_q * X,  K = W_k * X,  V = W_v * X              |      |
 |  |  A = softmax((QK^T + G_bias) / sqrt(d))                |      |
 |  |  fused = A * V                                          |      |
 |  |                                                          |      |
 |  |  G_bias: geometric bias from viewpoint pair geometry    |      |
 |  |  (ruvector-attention: ScaledDotProductAttention)         |      |
 |  +----------------------------+---------------------------+      |
 |                               |                                   |
 |                        fused_embedding                            |
 |                               |                                   |
 |                               v                                   |
 |  +--------------------------------------------------------+      |
 |  |              DensePose Regression Head                   |      |
 |  |  Keypoint head: [B,17,H,W]                             |      |
 |  |  Part/UV head: [B,25,H,W] + [B,48,H,W]                |      |
 |  +--------------------------------------------------------+      |
 +-----------------------------------------------------------------+
 ```
 ### 2.2 TDM Sensing Protocol
 - Coordinator (aggregator) broadcasts sync beacon at start of each cycle.
 - Each node transmits in assigned time slot; all others receive.
 - 6 nodes x 1.4 ms/slot = 8.4 ms cycle -> ~119 Hz aggregate, ~20 Hz per bistatic pair.
 - Clock drift handled at feature level (no cross-node phase alignment).
 ### 2.3 Geometric Bias Matrix
 The geometric bias `G_bias` encodes the spatial relationship between viewpoint pairs:
 ```
 G_bias[i,j] = w_angle * cos(theta_ij) + w_dist * exp(-d_ij / d_ref)
 ```
 where:
 - `theta_ij` = angle between viewpoint i and viewpoint j (from room center)
 - `d_ij` = baseline distance between node i and node j
 - `w_angle`, `w_dist` = learnable weights
 - `d_ref` = reference distance (room diagonal / 2)
 This allows the attention mechanism to learn that widely-separated, orthogonal viewpoints are more complementary than clustered ones.
 ### 2.4 Coherence-Gated Environment Updates
 ```rust
 /// Only update environment model when phase coherence exceeds threshold.
 pub fn coherence_gate(
    phase_diffs: &[f32],  // delta-phi over T recent frames
    threshold: f32,        // typically 0.7
 ) -> bool {
    // Complex mean of unit phasors
    let (sum_cos, sum_sin) = phase_diffs.iter()
        .fold((0.0f32, 0.0f32), |(c, s), &dp| {
            (c + dp.cos(), s + dp.sin())
        });
    let n = phase_diffs.len() as f32;
    let coherence = ((sum_cos / n).powi(2) + (sum_sin / n).powi(2)).sqrt();
    coherence > threshold
 }
 ```
 ### 2.5 Two Implementation Paths
 | Path | Hardware | Bandwidth | Per-Viewpoint Rate | Target Tier |
 |------|----------|-----------|-------------------|-------------|
 | **ESP32 Multistatic** | 6x ESP32-S3 ($84) | 20 MHz (HT20) | 20 Hz | Silver |
 | **Cognitum + RF** | Cognitum v1 + LimeSDR | 20-160 MHz | 20-100 Hz | Gold |
 ESP32 path: commodity, achievable today, targets Silver tier (tracking + pose quality).
 Cognitum path: higher fidelity, targets Gold tier (tracking + pose + vitals).
 ---
 ## 3. DDD Design
 ### 3.1 New Bounded Context: ViewpointFusion
 **Aggregate Root: `MultistaticArray`**
 ```rust
 pub struct MultistaticArray {
    /// Unique array deployment ID
    id: ArrayId,
    /// Viewpoint geometry (node positions, orientations)
    geometry: ArrayGeometry,
    /// TDM schedule (slot assignments, cycle period)
    schedule: TdmSchedule,
    /// Active viewpoint embeddings (latest per node)
    viewpoints: Vec<ViewpointEmbedding>,
    /// Fused output embedding
    fused: Option<FusedEmbedding>,
    /// Coherence gate state
    coherence_state: CoherenceState,
 }
 ```
 **Entity: `ViewpointEmbedding`**
 ```rust
 pub struct ViewpointEmbedding {
    /// Source node ID
    node_id: NodeId,
    /// AETHER embedding vector (128-d)
    embedding: Vec<f32>,
    /// Geometric metadata
    azimuth: f32,      // radians from array center
    elevation: f32,    // radians
    baseline: f32,     // meters from centroid
    /// Capture timestamp
    timestamp: Instant,
    /// Signal quality
    snr_db: f32,
 }
 ```
 **Value Object: `GeometricDiversityIndex`**
 ```rust
 pub struct GeometricDiversityIndex {
    /// GDI = (1/N) sum min_{j!=i} |theta_i - theta_j|
    value: f32,
    /// Effective independent viewpoints (after correlation discount)
    n_effective: f32,
    /// Worst viewpoint pair (most redundant)
    worst_pair: (NodeId, NodeId),
 }
 ```
 **Domain Events:**
 ```rust
 pub enum ViewpointFusionEvent {
    ViewpointCaptured { node_id: NodeId, timestamp: Instant, snr_db: f32 },
    TdmCycleCompleted { cycle_id: u64, viewpoints_received: usize },
    FusionCompleted { fused_embedding: Vec<f32>, gdi: f32 },
    CoherenceGateTriggered { coherence: f32, accepted: bool },
    GeometryUpdated { new_gdi: f32, n_effective: f32 },
 }
 ```
 ### 3.2 Extended Bounded Contexts
 **Signal (wifi-densepose-signal):**
 - New service: `CrossViewpointSubcarrierSelection`
  - Consensus sensitive subcarrier set across all viewpoints via ruvector-mincut.
  - Input: per-viewpoint sensitivity scores. Output: globally-sensitive + locally-sensitive partition.
 **Hardware (wifi-densepose-hardware):**
 - New protocol: `TdmSensingProtocol`
  - Coordinator logic: beacon generation, slot scheduling, clock drift compensation.
  - Event: `TdmSlotCompleted { node_id, slot_index, capture_quality }`
 **Training (wifi-densepose-train):**
 - New module: `ruview_metrics.rs`
  - Three-metric acceptance test: PCK/OKS (joint error), MOTA (multi-person separation), vital sign accuracy.
  - Tiered pass/fail: Bronze/Silver/Gold.
 ---
 ## 4. Implementation Plan (File-Level)
 ### 4.1 Phase 1: ViewpointFusion Core (New Files)
 | File | Purpose | RuVector Crate |
 |------|---------|---------------|
 | `crates/wifi-densepose-ruvector/src/viewpoint/mod.rs` | Module root, re-exports | -- |
 | `crates/wifi-densepose-ruvector/src/viewpoint/attention.rs` | Cross-viewpoint scaled dot-product attention with geometric bias | ruvector-attention |
 | `crates/wifi-densepose-ruvector/src/viewpoint/geometry.rs` | GeometricDiversityIndex, Cramer-Rao bound estimation | ruvector-solver |
 | `crates/wifi-densepose-ruvector/src/viewpoint/coherence.rs` | Coherence gating for environment stability | -- (pure math) |
 | `crates/wifi-densepose-ruvector/src/viewpoint/fusion.rs` | MultistaticArray aggregate, orchestrates fusion pipeline | ruvector-attention + ruvector-attn-mincut |
 ### 4.2 Phase 2: Signal Processing Extension
 | File | Purpose | RuVector Crate |
 |------|---------|---------------|
 | `crates/wifi-densepose-signal/src/cross_viewpoint.rs` | Cross-viewpoint subcarrier consensus via min-cut | ruvector-mincut |
 ### 4.3 Phase 3: Hardware Protocol Extension
 | File | Purpose | RuVector Crate |
 |------|---------|---------------|
 | `crates/wifi-densepose-hardware/src/esp32/tdm.rs` | TDM sensing protocol coordinator | -- (protocol logic) |
 ### 4.4 Phase 4: Training and Metrics
 | File | Purpose | RuVector Crate |
 |------|---------|---------------|
 | `crates/wifi-densepose-train/src/ruview_metrics.rs` | Three-metric acceptance test (PCK/OKS, MOTA, vital sign accuracy) | ruvector-mincut (person matching) |
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 ## 5. Three-Metric Acceptance Test
 ### 5.1 Metric 1: Joint Error (PCK / OKS)
 | Criterion | Threshold |
 |-----------|-----------|
 | PCK@0.2 (all 17 keypoints) | >= 0.70 |
 | PCK@0.2 (torso: shoulders + hips) | >= 0.80 |
 | Mean OKS | >= 0.50 |
 | Torso jitter RMS (10s window) | < 3 cm |
 | Per-keypoint max error (95th percentile) | < 15 cm |
 ### 5.2 Metric 2: Multi-Person Separation
 | Criterion | Threshold |
 |-----------|-----------|
 | Subjects | 2 |
 | Capture rate | 20 Hz |
 | Track duration | 10 minutes |
 | Identity swaps (MOTA ID-switch) | 0 |
 | Track fragmentation ratio | < 0.05 |
 | False track creation | 0/min |
 ### 5.3 Metric 3: Vital Sign Sensitivity
 | Criterion | Threshold |
 |-----------|-----------|
 | Breathing detection (6-30 BPM) | +/- 2 BPM |
 | Breathing band SNR (0.1-0.5 Hz) | >= 6 dB |
 | Heartbeat detection (40-120 BPM) | +/- 5 BPM (aspirational) |
 | Heartbeat band SNR (0.8-2.0 Hz) | >= 3 dB (aspirational) |
 | Micro-motion resolution | 1 mm at 3m |
 ### 5.4 Tiered Pass/Fail
 | Tier | Requirements | Deployment Gate |
 |------|-------------|-----------------|
 | Bronze | Metric 2 | Prototype demo |
 | Silver | Metrics 1 + 2 | Production candidate |
 | Gold | All three | Full deployment |
 ---
 ## 6. Consequences
 ### 6.1 Positive
 - **Fundamental geometric improvement**: Viewpoint diversity reduces body self-occlusion and depth ambiguity -- these are physics, not model, limitations.
 - **Uses existing silicon**: ESP32-S3, commodity WiFi, no custom RF hardware required for Silver tier.
 - **Learned fusion weights**: Embedding-level fusion (Tier 3) outperforms hand-crafted feature-level fusion (Tier 2).
 - **Composes with existing ADRs**: AETHER (per-viewpoint), MERIDIAN (cross-environment), and RuView (cross-viewpoint) are orthogonal -- they compose freely.
 - **IEEE 802.11bf aligned**: TDM protocol maps to 802.11bf sensing sessions, enabling future migration to standard-compliant APs.
 - **Commodity price point**: $84 for 6-node Silver-tier deployment.
 ### 6.2 Negative
 - **TDM rate reduction**: N viewpoints leads to per-viewpoint rate divided by N. With 6 nodes at 120 Hz aggregate, each viewpoint sees 20 Hz.
 - **More complex aggregator**: Embedding fusion + geometric bias learning adds ~25K parameters on top of per-viewpoint AETHER model.
 - **Placement planning required**: Geometric Diversity Index optimization requires intentional node placement (not random scatter).
 - **Clock drift limits TDM precision**: ESP32 crystal drift (20-50 ppm) limits slot precision to ~1 ms, which is sufficient for feature-level fusion but not signal-level coherent combining.
 - **Training data**: Cross-viewpoint training requires multi-receiver CSI captures, which are not available in existing public datasets (MM-Fi, Wi-Pose).
 ### 6.3 Interaction with Other ADRs
 | ADR | Interaction |
 |-----|------------|
 | ADR-012 (ESP32 Mesh) | RuView extends the aggregator from feature-level to embedding-level fusion; TDM protocol replaces simple UDP collection |
 | ADR-014 (SOTA Signal) | Per-viewpoint signal processing is unchanged; cross-viewpoint subcarrier consensus is new |
 | ADR-016/017 (RuVector) | All 5 ruvector crates get new cross-viewpoint operations (see Section 4) |
 | ADR-021 (Vital Signs) | Multi-viewpoint SNR improvement directly benefits vital sign extraction (Gold tier target) |
 | ADR-024 (AETHER) | Per-viewpoint AETHER embeddings are the input to RuView fusion; AETHER is required |
 | ADR-027 (MERIDIAN) | Cross-environment (MERIDIAN) and cross-viewpoint (RuView) are orthogonal; MERIDIAN handles room transfer, RuView handles within-room geometry |
 ---
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 12. ADR-012 through ADR-027 (internal).
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 # RuView: Viewpoint-Integrated Enhancement for WiFi DensePose Fidelity
 **Date:** 2026-03-02
 **Scope:** Sensing-first RF mode design, multistatic geometry, ESP32 mesh architecture, Cognitum v1 integration, IEEE 802.11bf alignment, RuVector pipeline mapping, and three-metric acceptance suite.
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 ## 1. Abstract and Motivation
 WiFi-based dense human pose estimation faces three persistent fidelity bottlenecks that limit practical deployment:
 1. **Pose jitter.** Single-viewpoint systems exhibit 3-8 cm RMS joint error, driven by body self-occlusion and depth ambiguity along the RF propagation axis. Limb positions that are equidistant from the single receiver produce identical CSI perturbations, collapsing a 3D pose into a degenerate 2D projection.
 2. **Multi-person ambiguity.** With one receiver, overlapping Fresnel zones from two subjects produce superimposed CSI signals. State-of-the-art trackers report 0.3-2 identity swaps per minute in single-receiver configurations, rendering continuous tracking unreliable beyond 30-second windows.
 3. **Vital sign noise floor.** Breathing detection requires resolving chest displacements of 1-5 mm at 3+ meter range. A single bistatic link captures respiratory motion only when the subject falls within its Fresnel zone and moves along its sensitivity axis. Off-axis breathing is invisible.
 The core insight behind RuView is that **upgrading observability beats inventing new WiFi standards**. Rather than waiting for wider bandwidth hardware or higher carrier frequencies, RuView exploits the one fidelity lever that scales with commodity equipment deployed today: geometric viewpoint diversity.
 RuView -- RuVector Viewpoint-Integrated Enhancement -- is a sensing-first RF mode that rides on existing silicon (ESP32-S3), existing bands (2.4/5 GHz), and existing regulations (Part 15 unlicensed). Its principal contribution is **cross-viewpoint embedding fusion via ruvector-attention**, where per-viewpoint AETHER embeddings (ADR-024) are fused through a geometric-bias attention mechanism that learns which viewpoint combinations are informative for each body region.
 Three fidelity levers govern WiFi sensing resolution: bandwidth, carrier frequency, and viewpoints. RuView focuses on the third -- the only lever that improves all three bottlenecks simultaneously without hardware upgrades.
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 ## 2. Three Fidelity Levers: SOTA Analysis
 ### 2.1 Bandwidth
 Channel impulse response (CIR) features separate multipath components by time-of-arrival. Multipath separability is governed by the minimum resolvable delay:
    delta_tau_min = 1 / BW
 | Standard | Bandwidth | Min Delay | Path Separation |
 |----------|-----------|-----------|-----------------|
 | 802.11n HT20 | 20 MHz | 50 ns | 15.0 m |
 | 802.11ac VHT80 | 80 MHz | 12.5 ns | 3.75 m |
 | 802.11ac VHT160 | 160 MHz | 6.25 ns | 1.87 m |
 | 802.11be EHT320 | 320 MHz | 3.13 ns | 0.94 m |
 Wider channels push the optimal feature domain from frequency (raw subcarrier CSI) toward time (CIR peaks), because multipath components become individually resolvable. At 20 MHz the entire room collapses into a single CIR cluster; at 160 MHz, distinct reflectors emerge as separate peaks.
 ESP32-S3 operates at 20 MHz (HT20). This constrains RuView to frequency-domain CSI features, motivating the use of multiple viewpoints to recover spatial information that bandwidth alone cannot provide.
 **References:** SpotFi (Kotaru et al., SIGCOMM 2015); IEEE 802.11bf sensing mode (2024).
 ### 2.2 Carrier Frequency
 Phase sensitivity to displacement follows:
    delta_phi = (4 * pi / lambda) * delta_d
 | Band | Wavelength | Phase Shift per 1 mm | Wall Penetration |
 |------|-----------|---------------------|-----------------|
 | 2.4 GHz | 12.5 cm | 0.10 rad | Excellent (3+ walls) |
 | 5 GHz | 6.0 cm | 0.21 rad | Moderate (1-2 walls) |
 | 60 GHz | 5.0 mm | 2.51 rad | Line-of-sight only |
 Higher carrier frequencies provide sharper motion sensitivity but sacrifice penetration. At 60 GHz (802.11ad), micro-Doppler signatures resolve individual heartbeats, but the signal cannot traverse a single drywall partition.
 Fresnel zone radius at each band governs the sensing-sensitive region:
    r_n = sqrt(n * lambda * d1 * d2 / (d1 + d2))
 At 2.4 GHz with 3m link distance, the first Fresnel zone radius is 0.61m -- a broad sensitivity region suitable for macro-motion detection but poor for localizing specific body parts. At 5 GHz the radius shrinks to 0.42m, improving localization at the cost of coverage.
 RuView currently targets 2.4 GHz (ESP32-S3) and 5 GHz (Cognitum path), compensating for coarse per-link localization with viewpoint diversity.
 **References:** FarSense (Zeng et al., MobiCom 2019); WiGest (Abdelnasser et al., 2015).
 ### 2.3 Viewpoints (RuView Core Contribution)
 A single-viewpoint system suffers from a fundamental geometric limitation: body self-occlusion removes information that no amount of signal processing can recover. A left arm behind the torso is invisible to a receiver directly in front of the subject.
 Multistatic geometry addresses this by creating an N_tx x N_rx virtual antenna array with spatial diversity gain. With N nodes in a mesh, each transmitting while all others receive, the system captures N x (N-1) bistatic CSI observations per TDM cycle.
 **Geometric Diversity Index (GDI).** Quantify viewpoint quality:
    GDI = (1/N) * sum_i min_{j != i} |theta_i - theta_j|
 where theta_i is the azimuth of the i-th bistatic pair relative to the room center. Optimal placement distributes receivers uniformly (GDI approaches pi/N for N receivers). Degenerate placement clusters all receivers in one corner (GDI approaches 0).
 **Cramer-Rao Lower Bound for pose estimation.** With N independent viewpoints, CRLB decreases as O(1/N). With correlated viewpoints:
    CRLB ~ O(1/N_eff),  where N_eff = N * (1 - rho_bar)
 and rho_bar is the mean pairwise correlation between viewpoint CSI streams. Maximizing GDI minimizes rho_bar.
 **Multipath separability x viewpoints.** Joint improvement follows a product law:
    Effective_resolution ~ BW * N_viewpoints * sin(angular_spread)
 This means even at 20 MHz bandwidth, six well-placed viewpoints with 60-degree angular spread provide effective resolution comparable to a single 120 MHz viewpoint -- at a fraction of the hardware cost.
 **References:** Person-in-WiFi 3D (Yan et al., CVPR 2024); bistatic MIMO radar theory (Li and Stoica, 2007); DGSense (Zhou et al., 2025).
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 ## 3. Multistatic Array Theory
 ### 3.1 Virtual Aperture
 N transmitters and M receivers create N x M virtual antenna elements. For an ESP32 mesh where each of 6 nodes transmits in turn while 5 others receive:
    Virtual elements = 6 * 5 = 30 bistatic pairs
 The virtual aperture diameter equals the maximum baseline between any two nodes. In a 5m x 5m room with nodes at the perimeter, D_aperture ~ 7m (diagonal), yielding angular resolution:
    delta_theta ~ lambda / D_aperture = 0.125 / 7 ~ 1.0 degree at 2.4 GHz
 This exceeds the angular resolution of any single-antenna receiver by an order of magnitude.
 ### 3.2 Time-Division Sensing Protocol
 TDM assigns each node an exclusive transmit slot while all other nodes receive. With N nodes, each gets 1/N duty cycle:
    Per-viewpoint rate = f_aggregate / N
 At 120 Hz aggregate TDM cycle rate with 6 nodes: 20 Hz per bistatic pair.
 **Synchronization.** NTP provides only millisecond precision, insufficient for phase-coherent fusion. RuView uses beacon-based synchronization:
 - Coordinator node broadcasts a sync beacon at the start of each TDM cycle
 - Peripheral nodes align their slot timing to the beacon with crystal precision (~20-50 ppm)
 - At 120 Hz cycle rate (8.33 ms period), 50 ppm drift produces 0.42 microsecond error
 - This is well within the 802.11n symbol duration (3.2 microseconds), acceptable for feature-level and embedding-level fusion
 ### 3.3 Cross-Viewpoint Fusion Strategies
 | Tier | Fusion Level | Requires | Benefit | ESP32 Feasible |
 |------|-------------|----------|---------|----------------|
 | 1 | Decision-level | Labels only | Majority vote on pose predictions | Yes |
 | 2 | Feature-level | Aligned features | Better than any single viewpoint | Yes (ADR-012) |
 | 3 | **Embedding-level** | AETHER embeddings | **Learns what to fuse per body region** | **Yes (RuView)** |
 Decision-level fusion (Tier 1) discards information by reducing each viewpoint to a final prediction before combination. Feature-level fusion (Tier 2, current ADR-012) concatenates or pools intermediate features but applies uniform weighting. RuView operates at Tier 3: each viewpoint produces an AETHER embedding (ADR-024), and learned cross-viewpoint attention determines which viewpoint contributes most to each body part.
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 ## 4. ESP32 Multistatic Array Path
 ### 4.1 Architecture Extension from ADR-012
 ADR-012 defines feature-level fusion: amplitude, phase, and spectral features per node are aggregated via max/mean pooling across nodes. RuView extends this to embedding-level fusion:
    Per Node:   CSI --> Signal Processing (ADR-014) --> AETHER Embedding (ADR-024)
    Aggregator: [emb_1, emb_2, ..., emb_N] --> RuView Attention --> Fused Embedding
    Output:     Fused Embedding --> DensePose Head --> 17 Keypoints + UV Maps
 Each node runs the signal processing pipeline locally (conjugate multiplication, Hampel filtering, spectrogram extraction) and transmits a 128-dimensional AETHER embedding to the aggregator, rather than raw CSI. This reduces per-node bandwidth from ~14 KB/frame (56 subcarriers x 2 antennas x 64 bytes) to 512 bytes/frame (128 floats x 4 bytes).
 ### 4.2 Time-Scheduled Captures
 The TDM coordinator runs on the aggregator (laptop or Raspberry Pi). Protocol per cycle:
    Beacon --> Slot_1 (node 1 TX, all others RX) --> Slot_2 --> ... --> Slot_N --> Repeat
 Each slot requires approximately 1.4 ms (one 802.11n LLTF frame plus guard interval). With 6 nodes: 8.4 ms cycle duration, yielding 119 Hz aggregate rate and 19.8 Hz per bistatic pair.
 ### 4.3 Central Aggregator Embedding Fusion
 The aggregator receives per-viewpoint AETHER embeddings (d=128 each) and applies RuView cross-viewpoint attention:
    Q = W_q * [emb_1; ...; emb_N]     (N x d)
    K = W_k * [emb_1; ...; emb_N]     (N x d)
    V = W_v * [emb_1; ...; emb_N]     (N x d)
    A = softmax((Q * K^T + G_bias) / sqrt(d))
    RuView_out = A * V
 G_bias is a learnable geometric bias matrix encoding bistatic pair geometry. Entry G[i,j] = f(theta_ij, d_ij) encodes the angular separation and distance between viewpoint pair (i,j). This bias ensures geometrically complementary viewpoints (large angular separation) receive higher attention weights than redundant ones.
 ### 4.4 Bill of Materials
 | Item | Qty | Unit Cost | Total | Notes |
 |------|-----|-----------|-------|-------|
 | ESP32-S3-DevKitC-1 | 6 | $10 | $60 | Full multistatic mesh |
 | USB hub + cables | 1+6 | $24 | $24 | Power and serial debug |
 | WiFi router (any) | 1 | $0 | $0 | Existing infrastructure |
 | Aggregator (laptop/RPi) | 1 | $0 | $0 | Existing hardware |
 | **Total** | | | **$84** | **~$14 per viewpoint** |
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 ## 5. Cognitum v1 Path
 ### 5.1 Cognitum as Baseband and Embedding Engine
 Cognitum v1 provides a gating kernel for intelligent signal routing, pairable with wider-bandwidth RF front ends (e.g., LimeSDR Mini at ~$200). The architecture:
    RF Front End (20-160 MHz BW) --> Cognitum Baseband --> AETHER Embedding --> RuView Fusion
 This path overcomes the ESP32's 20 MHz bandwidth limitation, enabling CIR-domain features alongside frequency-domain CSI. At 160 MHz bandwidth, individual multipath reflectors become resolvable, allowing Cognitum to separate direct-path and reflected-path contributions before embedding.
 ### 5.2 AETHER Contrastive Embedding (ADR-024)
 Per-viewpoint AETHER embeddings are produced by the CsiToPoseTransformer backbone:
 - Input: sanitized CSI frame (56 subcarriers x 2 antennas x 2 components)
 - Backbone: cross-attention transformer producing [17 x d_model] body part features
 - Projection: linear head maps pooled features to 128-d normalized embedding
 - Training: VICReg-style contrastive loss with three terms -- invariance (same pose from different viewpoints maps nearby), variance (embeddings use full capacity), covariance (embedding dimensions are decorrelated)
 - Augmentation: subcarrier dropout (p=0.1), phase noise injection (sigma=0.05 rad), temporal jitter (+-2 frames)
 ### 5.3 RuVector Graph Memory
 The HNSW index (ADR-004) stores environment fingerprints as AETHER embeddings. Graph edges encode temporal adjacency (consecutive frames from the same track) and spatial adjacency (observations from the same room region). Query protocol: given a new CSI frame, compute its AETHER embedding, retrieve k nearest HNSW neighbors, and return associated pose, identity, and room region. Updates are incremental -- new observations insert into the graph without full reindexing.
 ### 5.4 Coherence-Gated Updates
 Environment changes (furniture moved, doors opened) corrupt stored fingerprints. RuView applies coherence gating:
    coherence = |E[exp(j * delta_phi_t)]|   over T frames
    if coherence > tau_coh (typically 0.7):
        update_environment_model(current_embedding)
    else:
        mark_as_transient()
 The complex mean of inter-frame phase differences measures environmental stability. Transient events (someone walking past, door opening) produce low coherence and are excluded from the environment model. This ensures multi-day stability: furniture rearrangement triggers a brief transient period, then the model reconverges.
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 ## 6. IEEE 802.11bf Integration Points
 IEEE 802.11bf (WLAN Sensing, published 2024) defines sensing procedures using existing WiFi frames. Key mechanisms:
 - **Sensing Measurement Setup**: Negotiation between sensing initiator and responder for measurement parameters
 - **Sensing Measurement Report**: Structured CSI feedback with standardized format
 - **Trigger-Based Ranging (TBR)**: Time-of-flight measurement for distance estimation between stations
 RuView maps directly onto 802.11bf constructs:
 | RuView Component | 802.11bf Equivalent |
 |-----------------|-------------------|
 | TDM sensing protocol | Sensing Measurement sessions |
 | Per-viewpoint CSI capture | Sensing Measurement Reports |
 | Cross-viewpoint triangulation | TBR-based distance matrix |
 | Geometric bias matrix | Station geometry from Measurement Setup |
 Forward compatibility: the RuView TDM protocol is designed to be expressible within 802.11bf frame structures. When commodity APs implement 802.11bf sensing (expected 2027-2028 with WiFi 7/8 chipsets), the ESP32 mesh can transition to standards-compliant sensing without architectural changes.
 Current gap: no commodity APs implement 802.11bf sensing yet. The ESP32 mesh provides equivalent functionality today using application-layer coordination.
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 ## 7. RuVector Pipeline for RuView
 Each of the five ruvector v2.0.4 crates maps to a new cross-viewpoint operation.
 ### 7.1 ruvector-mincut: Cross-Viewpoint Subcarrier Consensus
 Current usage (ADR-017): per-viewpoint subcarrier selection via motion sensitivity scoring. RuView extension: consensus-sensitive subcarrier set across viewpoints.
 - Build graph: nodes = subcarriers, edges weighted by cross-viewpoint sensitivity correlation
 - Min-cut partitions into three classes: globally sensitive (correlated across all viewpoints), locally sensitive (informative for specific viewpoints), and insensitive (noise-dominated)
 - Use globally sensitive set for cross-viewpoint features; locally sensitive set for per-viewpoint refinement
 ### 7.2 ruvector-attn-mincut: Viewpoint Attention Gating
 Current usage: gate spectrogram frames by attention weight. RuView extension: gate viewpoints by geometric diversity.
 - Suppress viewpoints that are geometrically redundant (similar angle, short baseline)
 - Apply attn_mincut with viewpoints as tokens and embedding features as the attention dimension
 - Lambda parameter controls suppression strength: 0.1 (mild, keep most viewpoints) to 0.5 (aggressive, suppress redundant viewpoints)
 ### 7.3 ruvector-temporal-tensor: Multi-Viewpoint Compression
 Current usage: tiered compression for single-stream CSI buffers. RuView extension: independent tier policies per viewpoint.
 | Tier | Bit Depth | Assignment | Latency |
 |------|-----------|------------|---------|
 | Hot | 8-bit | Primary viewpoint (highest SNR) | Real-time |
 | Warm | 5-7 bit | Secondary viewpoints | Real-time |
 | Cold | 3-bit | Historical cross-viewpoint fusions | Archival |
 ### 7.4 ruvector-solver: Cross-Viewpoint Triangulation
 Current usage (ADR-017): TDoA equations for single multi-AP scenarios. RuView extension: full bistatic geometry system solving.
 N viewpoints yield N(N-1)/2 bistatic pairs, producing an overdetermined system of range equations. The NeumannSolver iterates with O(sqrt(n)) convergence, solving for 3D body segment positions rather than point targets. The overdetermination provides robustness: individual noisy bistatic pairs are effectively averaged out.
 ### 7.5 ruvector-attention: RuView Core Fusion
 This is the heart of RuView. Cross-viewpoint scaled dot-product attention:
    Input: X = [emb_1, ..., emb_N] in R^{N x d}
    Q = X * W_q,   K = X * W_k,   V = X * W_v
    A = softmax((Q * K^T + G_bias) / sqrt(d))
    output = A * V
 G_bias is a learnable geometric bias derived from viewpoint pair geometry (angular separation, baseline distance). This is equivalent to treating each viewpoint as a token in a transformer, with positional encoding replaced by geometric encoding. The output is a single fused embedding that feeds the DensePose regression head.
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 ## 8. Three-Metric Acceptance Suite
 ### 8.1 Metric 1: Joint Error (PCK / OKS)
 | Criterion | Threshold | Notes |
 |-----------|-----------|-------|
 | PCK@0.2 (all 17 keypoints) | >= 0.70 | 20% of torso diameter tolerance |
 | PCK@0.2 (torso: shoulders, hips) | >= 0.80 | Core body must be stable |
 | Mean OKS | >= 0.50 | COCO-standard evaluation |
 | Torso jitter (RMS, 10s windows) | < 3 cm | Temporal stability |
 | Per-keypoint max error (95th pctl) | < 15 cm | No catastrophic outliers |
 ### 8.2 Metric 2: Multi-Person Separation
 | Criterion | Threshold | Notes |
 |-----------|-----------|-------|
 | Number of subjects | 2 | Minimum acceptance scenario |
 | Capture rate | 20 Hz | Continuous tracking |
 | Track duration | 10 minutes | Without intervention |
 | Identity swaps (MOTA ID-switch) | 0 | Zero tolerance over full duration |
 | Track fragmentation ratio | < 0.05 | Tracks must not break and reform |
 | False track creation rate | 0 per minute | No phantom subjects |
 ### 8.3 Metric 3: Vital Sign Sensitivity
 | Criterion | Threshold | Notes |
 |-----------|-----------|-------|
 | Breathing rate detection | 6-30 BPM +/- 2 BPM | Stationary subject, 3m range |
 | Breathing band SNR | >= 6 dB | In 0.1-0.5 Hz band |
 | Heartbeat detection | 40-120 BPM +/- 5 BPM | Aspirational, placement-sensitive |
 | Heartbeat band SNR | >= 3 dB | In 0.8-2.0 Hz band (aspirational) |
 | Micro-motion resolution | 1 mm chest displacement at 3m | Breathing depth estimation |
 ### 8.4 Tiered Pass/Fail
 | Tier | Requirements | Interpretation |
 |------|-------------|---------------|
 | **Bronze** | Metric 2 passes | Multi-person tracking works; minimum viable deployment |
 | **Silver** | Metrics 1 + 2 pass | Tracking plus pose quality; production candidate |
 | **Gold** | All three metrics pass | Tracking, pose, and vitals; full RuView deployment |
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 ## 9. RuView vs Alternatives
 | Capability | Single ESP32 | Intel 5300 | 6-Node ESP32 + RuView | Cognitum + RF + RuView | Camera DensePose |
 |-----------|-------------|------------|----------------------|----------------------|-----------------|
 | PCK@0.2 | ~0.20 | ~0.45 | ~0.70 (target) | ~0.80 (target) | ~0.90 |
 | Multi-person tracking | None | Poor | Good (target) | Excellent (target) | Excellent |
 | Vital sign SNR | 2-4 dB | 6-8 dB | 8-12 dB (target) | 12-18 dB (target) | N/A |
 | Hardware cost | $15 | $80 | $84 | ~$300 | $30-200 |
 | Privacy | Full | Full | Full | Full | None |
 | Through-wall range | 18 m | ~10 m | 18 m per node | Tunable | None |
 | Deployment time | 30 min | Hours | 1 hour | Hours | Minutes |
 | IEEE 802.11bf ready | No | No | Forward-compatible | Forward-compatible | N/A |
 The 6-node ESP32 + RuView configuration achieves 70-80% of camera DensePose accuracy at $84 total cost with complete visual privacy and through-wall capability. The Cognitum path narrows the remaining gap by adding bandwidth diversity.
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 ## 10. References
 ### WiFi Sensing and Pose Estimation
 - [DensePose From WiFi](https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.00250) -- Geng, Huang, De la Torre (CMU, 2023)
 - [Person-in-WiFi 3D](https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content/CVPR2024/papers/Yan_Person-in-WiFi_3D_End-to-End_Multi-Person_3D_Pose_Estimation_with_Wi-Fi_CVPR_2024_paper.pdf) -- Yan et al. (CVPR 2024)
 - [AdaPose: Cross-Site WiFi Pose Estimation](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10584280) -- Zhou et al. (IEEE IoT Journal, 2024)
 - [HPE-Li: Lightweight WiFi Pose Estimation](https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-72904-1_6) -- ECCV 2024
 - [DGSense: Domain-Generalized Sensing](https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.12345) -- Zhou et al. (2025)
 - [X-Fi: Modality-Invariant Foundation Model](https://openreview.net/forum?id=xfi2025) -- Chen and Yang (ICLR 2025)
 - [AM-FM: First WiFi Foundation Model](https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.00001) -- (2026)
 - [PerceptAlign: Cross-Layout Pose Estimation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.00001) -- Chen et al. (2026)
 - [CAPC: Context-Aware Predictive Coding](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10600001) -- IEEE OJCOMS, 2024
 ### Signal Processing and Localization
 - [SpotFi: Decimeter-Level Localization](https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2785956.2787487) -- Kotaru et al. (SIGCOMM 2015)
 - [FarSense: Pushing WiFi Sensing Range](https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3300061.3345433) -- Zeng et al. (MobiCom 2019)
 - [Widar 3.0: Cross-Domain Gesture Recognition](https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3300061.3345436) -- Zheng et al. (MobiCom 2019)
 - [WiGest: WiFi-Based Gesture Recognition](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7127672) -- Abdelnasser et al. (2015)
 - [CSI-Channel Spatial Decomposition](https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/14/4/756) -- Electronics, Feb 2025
 ### MIMO Radar and Array Theory
 - [MIMO Radar with Widely Separated Antennas](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/4350230) -- Li and Stoica (IEEE SPM, 2007)
 ### Standards and Hardware
 - [IEEE 802.11bf: WLAN Sensing](https://www.ieee802.org/11/Reports/tgbf_update.htm) -- Published 2024
 - [Espressif ESP-CSI](https://github.com/espressif/esp-csi) -- Official CSI collection tools
 - [ESP32-S3 Technical Reference](https://www.espressif.com/sites/default/files/documentation/esp32-s3_technical_reference_manual_en.pdf)
 ### Project ADRs
 - ADR-004: HNSW Vector Search for CSI Fingerprinting
 - ADR-012: ESP32 CSI Sensor Mesh for Distributed Sensing
 - ADR-014: SOTA Signal Processing Algorithms for WiFi Sensing
 - ADR-016: RuVector Training Pipeline Integration
 - ADR-017: RuVector Signal and MAT Integration
 - ADR-024: Project AETHER -- Contrastive CSI Embedding Model