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Smart Buildings Shared-family mapped

AirPath

AirPath: Vent-Flutter Airflow Verification

Checks that conditioned air is actually blowing out of each vent.

Readiness Shared-family mapped

Mapped to a shared offline runtime family and usable with a recording or compatible ESP32 CSI stream.

Evidence Frontier Unvalidated concept

An early research proposal with no capability-specific product validation yet.

Runtime family Machine vibration

Spectral energy and drift tracking for repeatable machine vibration signatures.

When no ESP32 is connected

No compatible ESP32 stream is connected. Use the bundled Buildings recording; it demonstrates the shared Machine vibration runtime, not independent proof of this capability.

Intended capability

Pilot this intended outcome through the shared Machine vibration family, then validate it against site-specific ground truth: Verifies that conditioned air is actually reaching each zone by reading flow-induced micro-vibration of diffuser vanes, flex-duct skin and ceiling tiles — a continuous, per-diffuser commissioning check without duct sensors.

This describes the intended outcome. Readiness is shared-family mapped, evidence is class C, and a catalog mapping or recording is not proof of this outcome at a real site.

Solution blueprint

See the environment before installing it.

This exact kit is one of 191 first-class designs. It includes geometry, objects, nodes, wording, scenarios, installation, limitations, and catalog-bound readiness.

Shared-family mapped

No rendered revision is available yet.

Bundled recording

A related Buildings scene

This is one recorded vertical scenario. It is not separate validation of every capability in the catalog.

01 The physics

Air itself is RF-transparent, but airflow makes lightweight fixtures oscillate: diffuser blades and duct membranes flutter at flow-dependent frequencies and amplitudes (roughly 5-40Hz, sub-mm displacement), phase-modulating reflected paths — a micro-Doppler line whose frequency/energy tracks volumetric flow. Damper stuck closed = flutter line disappears.

02 Shared processing path

Micro-Doppler spectral lines 5-40Hz gated to static (machine-vs-human discriminator rejects people) -> axis discovery: commissioning 'poke' sweeps each VAV damper 0-100% to teach the flow-vs-flutter axis per diffuser -> compartment Kalman tracks per-diffuser flow state, CUSUM flags stuck dampers and clogged filters.

This is a capability design path. Components may be shared with other catalog entries; it is not presented as a unique algorithm.

03 Validation plan

Own-hardware only: bench rig with a variable-speed fan, standard diffuser and anemometer ground truth — establish flutter-frequency/energy vs CFM curve, then a live ceiling with commanded VAV sweeps via the BMS.

04 Commercial hypothesis

For the commissioning agent / HVAC service contractor: 'Continuous commissioning from the WiFi — every diffuser self-reports whether air is actually coming out, forever, with zero duct instrumentation.'