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Residential Security Physics limit

HoverWatch

Window-Line Drone Sentinel

A drone hovering outside the window is too faint for the home's WiFi — so we refuse to claim it.

Readiness Physics limit

Retained for transparency, but blocked from execution because the catalog physics review rejected it.

Evidence Frontier Unvalidated concept

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

Runtime family Presence

Calibrated motion and presence score from CSI variance and change statistics.

Why live sensing is unavailable

Blade-flash micro-Doppler is real radar physics, but a small plastic quadrotor 1-5 m outside sits outside the mesh sensing volume with tiny RCS, and rotor rates (~100-200 Hz) alias unpredictably at commodity CSI rates. Its perturbation to indoor links is below the noise floor.

Intended capability

Document why this proposed outcome is blocked by the reviewed physics: Detection of small drones hovering outside upper-floor windows — the reconnaissance and voyeurism vector no residential alarm covers — from the same indoor mesh, through the glass.

This describes the intended outcome. Readiness is physics limit, 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.

Physics limit

No rendered revision is available yet.

Bundled recording

A related Home scene

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

01 The physics

A hovering quadrotor presents two observables: rotor blades produce periodic 'blade flash' modulation that aliases into the measurable 10-40 Hz Doppler band as a comb-like spectral signature unlike any biological mover, and the plastic-and-battery airframe adds a small persistent scatterer at window height where the RTI prior says nothing should float. Glass is nearly RF-transparent at 2.4/5 GHz.

02 Shared processing path

Micro-Doppler comb detection in the 10-40 Hz band (stage 2) -> spectral periodicity template vs human/pet/fan manifolds (stage 3) -> RTI localization to the window exterior at floor height >1 (stage 4) to reject indoor fans and street traffic.

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

Rejected on the WiFi physics: a small quadrotor 1-5 m outside sits below the indoor-link noise floor and its rotor rates alias at commodity CSI frame rates — a verdict about the WiFi mesh, and it stands. An aimed 24 GHz radar cone at the window is untested by that verdict: a class-C bench experiment (radar at the glass, hover vs confounder trials, coated and uncoated panes, report AUC and standoff) could one day reopen the question. It is an experiment, never a shipped promise.

04 Commercial hypothesis

"Anti-drone privacy protection for the bedroom window, from the WiFi you already own." For luxury home security and celebrity/executive residence packages.