RuView Brings Camera-Free Sensing to ESP32

RuView is a compelling developer prototype, but its practical value currently depends more on careful calibration and multi-node setup than on plug-and-play “Wi-Fi vision.”

• –CSI capture requires dedicated ESP32 hardware; ordinary laptops generally provide only coarse RSSI-based sensing.
• –Local processing offers a meaningful privacy advantage for occupancy, motion, and ambient monitoring.
• –The repository labels breathing and heart-rate estimates experimental, while live 17-keypoint pose remains unvalidated.
• –Three-board deployments make the system testable, but environmental changes and RF interference can produce false positives.
• –The project is most promising as an open platform for research and custom edge sensing, not yet as a medical or security-grade replacement for cameras.