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Frontier — the Field Lab Shared-family mapped

PestRadar

In-Wall Pest Colony Detector

It feels termites chewing inside a wall — at night, when all is still.

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 Frontier 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: Detects active termite/carpenter-ant/rodent activity inside wall cavities by their vibration signature plus the slow dielectric change of chewed, moisture-conditioned galleries.

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 Frontier scene

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

01 The physics

Feeding and head-banging termites and gnawing rodents produce sustained micro-vibrations of the wall substrate (roughly 1-40 Hz envelope band accessible to CSI micro-Doppler), phase-modulating paths reflecting off that wall section, predominantly at night when the baseline is quietest. Over weeks, galleries and the moisture termites import alter the wall's effective eps_r/sigma along those same paths.

02 Shared processing path

Stage 2 micro-Doppler detects recurring nocturnal narrowband vibration anchored (via Stage 1 tap association) to one wall segment -> Stage 3 anomaly manifold scores it against the learned quiet-hours baseline -> Stage 5 NeRF map watches for co-located slow eps_r drift -> Stage 6 CUSUM accumulates evidence over weeks into an 'active infestation' alarm with wall-segment localization.

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 with a pest-control partner: known-infested vs control wall sections (acoustic-emission probe as ground truth, the industry standard), plus a mechanical shaker injecting calibrated uN-level wall vibrations to establish the detection floor of the ESP32 mesh.

04 Commercial hypothesis

'Continuous termite surveillance between annual inspections' — subscription monitoring for pest-control companies and home-warranty providers, localizing activity to the wall segment before structural damage.