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Elderly Care Shared-family mapped

WanderWatch

Sundowning & Nocturnal Wandering Radar for Memory Care

Pilot target for room-to-room movement patterns; it cannot guarantee an elopement warning.

Readiness Shared-family mapped

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

Evidence Strong theory Supported hypothesis

Published physics or adjacent results support the hypothesis; capability-specific product and site validation are still required.

Runtime family Through-wall presence

Coarse presence inference across an obstructed link; it is not identity or photographic imaging.

When no ESP32 is connected

No compatible ESP32 stream is connected. Use the bundled Elderly recording; it demonstrates the shared Through-wall presence runtime, not independent proof of this capability.

Intended capability

Evaluate the sensing evidence for “Sundowning & Nocturnal Wandering Radar for Memory Care” in a consented study using staged events and independent reference observations. This is not a care decision, fall prediction, emergency response, or proof of resident safety.

This describes the intended outcome. Readiness is shared-family mapped, evidence is class B, 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 Elderly scene

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

01 The physics

A moving body is a strong differential scatterer: RTI attenuation images localize the resident to ~0.5-1m through interior walls, and repetitive pacing produces a distinctive periodic occupancy pattern plus sustained low-frequency Doppler energy. Circadian disruption changes the time-of-day distribution of motion energy, which is directly observable without any interpretation of identity or appearance.

02 Shared processing path

RTI differential imaging for trajectory extraction -> Doppler energy histogram binned by hour -> adaptive PCA + MVE with a per-resident 24h rolling baseline -> compartment Kalman on nightly activity-onset phase + CUSUM over 1-2 weeks to detect circadian phase drift (a documented sundowning precursor).

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

WiMANS multi-person activity data for trajectory/activity separation; ESP32-wall dataset for through-wall tracking fidelity; own-hardware pilot in one memory-care wing against staff incident logs and door-alarm events.

04 Commercial hypothesis

For memory-care directors of nursing: 'Know a resident is trending toward elopement days before they reach the door' — night-shift wandering heatmaps and drift alerts from the WiFi already in the walls.