# Wavey

- [Wavey: WiFi CSI Sensing for Occupancy, Motion, and Presence](https://docs.waveyhq.dev/index.md): Wavey is an open-source WiFi CSI sensing stack. ESP32 nodes capture Channel State Information to detect occupancy, motion, and presence without cameras or wearables.
- [Get Started with Wavey WiFi CSI Sensing](https://docs.waveyhq.dev/getting-started.md): Deploy ESP32 nodes, run the Python pipeline, and understand Wavey's three-layer architecture for occupancy, motion, and presence sensing.
- [How WiFi CSI Sensing Works: Physics and Signals](https://docs.waveyhq.dev/concepts/how-it-works.md): Learn how Channel State Information, OFDM subcarriers, multipath propagation, and micro-Doppler physics enable device-free WiFi sensing.
- [Wavey Sensing Pipeline: Raw CSI to Detection Events](https://docs.waveyhq.dev/concepts/sensing-pipeline.md): Preprocess raw CSI, extract time-domain and spectrogram features, and apply ML from classical thresholds to domain adaptation for reliable detection.
- [Detection Ladder: What WiFi CSI Can and Cannot Do](https://docs.waveyhq.dev/concepts/detection-ladder.md): A 10-rung ladder from binary occupancy to pose and identity, with the signal requirements, failure modes, and Wavey scope at each level.
- [WiFi CSI Sensing Use Cases Overview](https://docs.waveyhq.dev/use-cases/index.md): Explore all Wavey use cases: occupancy detection, motion and activity recognition, presence sensing, elder care, security, smart home, and analytics.
- [Device-Free Occupancy Detection with WiFi CSI](https://docs.waveyhq.dev/use-cases/occupancy-detection.md): Detect whether a room is occupied or empty using change-point detection against a learned WiFi CSI baseline. No cameras, wearables, or device counting required.
- [Motion and Activity Detection Using WiFi CSI](https://docs.waveyhq.dev/use-cases/motion-activity-detection.md): Detect motion via variance thresholds and classify human activities through three generations of CSI-based HAR, from physics-linked models to dual-stream transformers.
- [Still-Person Presence Detection via WiFi Micro-Doppler](https://docs.waveyhq.dev/use-cases/presence-detection.md): Detect stationary occupants through breathing micro-Doppler on WiFi CSI phase when PIR and cameras fail. Requires clean phase, sufficient SNR, and a quiet environment.
- [Ambient Elder-Care Monitoring with WiFi CSI Sensing](https://docs.waveyhq.dev/use-cases/elder-care-monitoring.md): Ambient presence and fall-event awareness for aging in place using WiFi CSI. No cameras in bedrooms and no wearables that get left on the nightstand.
- [Security and Intrusion Detection via WiFi CSI](https://docs.waveyhq.dev/use-cases/security-intrusion-detection.md): Detect motion through walls without cameras, wearables, or light. WiFi CSI enables device-free, darkness-invariant zone monitoring using existing radio signals.
- [Smart-Home Automation with WiFi Presence Holds](https://docs.waveyhq.dev/use-cases/smart-home-automation.md): Use WiFi presence holds instead of motion pulses to keep lights on, HVAC running, and scenes active while occupants are still in a room.
- [Anonymous Occupancy Analytics with WiFi CSI](https://docs.waveyhq.dev/use-cases/occupancy-analytics.md): Generate zone-level utilization metrics from WiFi CSI without tracking devices, capturing personal data, or installing cameras.
- [WiFi CSI Sensing vs Other Technologies](https://docs.waveyhq.dev/comparisons/index.md): How WiFi CSI compares to cameras, mmWave radar, PIR sensors, and wearables on sensing mechanism, coverage, cost, and deployment.
- [WiFi CSI Sensing vs PIR Motion Sensors Compared](https://docs.waveyhq.dev/comparisons/wifi-sensing-vs-pir.md): Compare differential IR motion pulses with radio-based presence holds to choose the right sensor for occupancy, security, and automation.
- [WiFi CSI Sensing vs Camera Systems Compared](https://docs.waveyhq.dev/comparisons/wifi-sensing-vs-cameras.md): Compare radio-based anonymous occupancy with visual surveillance across coverage, latency, cost, and privacy to pick the right sensing approach.
- [WiFi CSI Sensing vs Wearables and Device Tracking](https://docs.waveyhq.dev/comparisons/wifi-sensing-vs-wearables.md): Compare device-free body sensing with wearable and MAC-based tracking for occupancy, elder care, and building analytics use cases.
- [WiFi CSI Sensing vs mmWave Radar Compared](https://docs.waveyhq.dev/comparisons/wifi-sensing-vs-mmwave-radar.md): Compare commodity WiFi reuse with dedicated 60 GHz radar for presence, motion, and vitals sensing across cost, scale, and precision.
- [WiFi CSI Sensing Glossary: Key Terms Defined](https://docs.waveyhq.dev/reference/glossary.md): Definitions for CSI, RSSI, OFDM, multipath, HAR, and all other terms used across the Wavey documentation and WiFi sensing stack.
- [Frequently Asked Questions About Wavey and WiFi CSI](https://docs.waveyhq.dev/reference/faq.md): Practical questions on hardware, detection accuracy, privacy, and getting started with Wavey WiFi CSI sensing.
- [About Wavey: Open-Source WiFi CSI Sensing](https://docs.waveyhq.dev/about.md): Wavey is an open-source WiFi CSI sensing system for device-free occupancy, motion, and presence detection using low-cost ESP32 hardware.
- [Contact the Wavey Team](https://docs.waveyhq.dev/contact.md): Reach the Wavey team via Discord, GitHub, or email for questions, contributions, and partnership inquiries.
- [Wavey Technical Deep Dives and Research Posts](https://docs.waveyhq.dev/posts/index.md): Technical deep dives on WiFi CSI sensing, activity classifiers, baselines, and the RF privacy research series from the Wavey team.
- [Introduction to WiFi CSI: What a Channel Snapshot Contains](https://docs.waveyhq.dev/posts/introduction-to-wifi-csi.md): Learn how OFDM subcarriers capture multipath superposition, why RSSI discards critical phase data, and how the CSI matrix encodes environmental change for WiFi sensing.
- [ESP32 CSI: Commodity WiFi Sensing Limits and Capabilities](https://docs.waveyhq.dev/posts/esp32-csi-explained.md): Explore ESP32 subcarrier count, phase noise from CFO and SFO, sampling constraints, and which WiFi sensing tasks are achievable on single-antenna commodity hardware.
- [Building a WiFi Activity Classifier: Threshold to CNN](https://docs.waveyhq.dev/posts/wifi-motion-detection-without-camera.md): Follow the engineering path from a variance threshold to a spectrogram CNN for WiFi human activity recognition, including label collection and domain shift.
- [Baselines and Generalization in Device-Free Occupancy Sensing](https://docs.waveyhq.dev/posts/device-free-occupancy-sensing-explained.md): Learn how to build empty-room fingerprints, handle drift sources and cross-site domain shift, and know exactly when to trigger a re-baseline in WiFi sensing.
- [RF Privacy: The Hidden Risks of WiFi Sensing Technology](https://docs.waveyhq.dev/posts/rf-privacy-the-flip-side-of-wifi-sensing.md): The same physics that powers Wavey's legitimate occupancy sensing can be exploited by attackers for passive surveillance without consent, specialized hardware, or network access.
- [WiFi Sensing Attacks: LeakyBeam, BFId, and BFI Side Channels](https://docs.waveyhq.dev/posts/wifi-sensing-attacks-leakybeam-bfid.md): Two 2025 papers at NDSS and CCS demonstrate passive occupancy detection and identity inference using plaintext beamforming feedback from commodity WiFi hardware.
- [Detecting Unauthorized WiFi Sensing: Five Detection Layers](https://docs.waveyhq.dev/posts/detecting-unauthorized-rf-sensing.md): Five layered detection approaches from RF emitter inventory to behavioral baselines, with honest assessment of what each catches, misses, and its feasibility on commodity hardware.
- [RF Privacy Defenses: Obfuscation, Metasurfaces, and Limits](https://docs.waveyhq.dev/posts/rf-privacy-defenses-and-limits.md): Transmitter-side CSI fuzzing, relay obfuscation, metasurface shields, and BFI-specific defenses each carry practical limits that buyers and deployers should understand.
- [802.11bf Ratification: WiFi Sensing Standards and Privacy](https://docs.waveyhq.dev/posts/ieee-80211bf-privacy-gap.md): What the 802.11bf standard enables for WiFi sensing, what privacy protections it omits, and what enterprise buyers evaluating sensing hardware should demand from vendors.