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RuView

Open source alternative to AWS IoT, Amazon Bedrock Agents and Datadog

  • 98.9K stars
  • MIT
  • Active this week
  • Last commit 2 days ago

Last verified Oct 20, 2026

Monitor occupancy, breathing, heart rate, and movement from WiFi signals with ESP32 sensors that run fully on local edge hardware.

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TL;DR

RuView turns WiFi signals from $9 ESP32 sensors into a room-awareness system that detects people, measures breathing and heart rate, and tracks movement through walls, with no cameras required. MIT licensed, runs entirely on edge hardware with no cloud dependency.

Read the full breakdownHide the full breakdownWho it is for, how it works, trade-offs, the quick start and the FAQ
who it's for

Who RuView is for#

Healthcare facility

Monitors patient breathing and movement overnight without installing cameras in patient rooms, avoiding imaging privacy regulations.

Building management team

Counts occupancy across meeting rooms using existing WiFi infrastructure and adjusts HVAC automatically.

Developer / elderly care app

Builds a fall-detection system for elderly care that alerts a caregiver when no motion is detected for an extended period.

Retail store

Measures dwell time and foot traffic patterns without video surveillance to comply with privacy regulations.

Researcher

Uses the Docker image to prototype and validate signal-processing pipelines before committing to hardware deployment.

the problem

The problem it solves#

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.

how RuView solves it

How it solves it#

Through-wall presence and vital signs

Detects presence, breathing rate (6-30 BPM), and heart rate (40-120 BPM) through walls using WiFi Channel State Information (CSI)

WiFi-based pose estimation, no cameras

Estimates 17 COCO body keypoints (pose skeleton) from WiFi signals using the WiFlow neural architecture, no cameras needed

Full edge deployment, no cloud

Runs entirely on edge hardware: an ESP32-S3 mesh ($9 per node) with no cloud, no internet required after setup

Multi-frequency mesh scanning

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

Full system BOM around $140 including a Cognitum Seed for persistent vector storage and cryptographic attestation

Docker image for hardware-free evaluation

Docker image available for simulation and pipeline evaluation without any hardware

strengths · trade-offs

Strengths and trade-offs#

Strengths

  • No cameras, no GDPR/HIPAA imaging frictionNo cameras means no GDPR video or HIPAA imaging compliance burden by design, making deployments in healthcare and residential settings straightforward
  • Self-adapts in 30 seconds, no calibrationSelf-adapts to each room environment in under 30 seconds using spiking neural networks, no manual calibration or training data collection required
  • Low hardware cost, reuses existing WiFiHardware costs are genuinely low: a basic sensing node is a $9 ESP32-S3 and most deployments can reuse existing WiFi infrastructure
  • MIT licensed with 1,463+ passing testsMIT licensed with 1,463+ passing tests and active development

Trade-offs

  • -Camera-free pose accuracy still improvingCamera-supervised pose accuracy (PCK@20 target of 35%+) is still in the evaluation phase; current camera-free accuracy is limited to approximately 2.5% PCK@20 with proxy labels
  • -Requires ESP32-S3 specificallyESP32-C3 and original ESP32 are not supported; requires ESP32-S3 specifically due to DSP requirements
  • -Multi-node recommended for larger spacesSingle-node deployments have limited spatial resolution; two or more nodes are recommended for accurate person counting in larger spaces
versus alternatives

RuView vs alternatives#

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.

install · quick start

Quick start#

bash
Self-host the Docker demo for local evaluation or lab deployment.

docker run -p 3000:3000 ruvnet/wifi-densepose:latest
tech stack · detected from GitHub

What it's built on#

Languages
CJavaScriptPythonRustTypeScript
Frameworks
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Tooling
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frequently asked

FAQ#

Does this require special WiFi hardware?

For 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.

Does it work through multiple walls?

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.

Is data sent to the cloud?

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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