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Trailer Heartbeat — Stowaway & Intrusion Sensing

Feels a hidden person breathing inside a sealed trailer.

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The physics is solid; our own validation is scheduled.

WiFi threads through cargo stacks and thin walls where no camera can look. A concealed person, even lying perfectly still, breathes — and that slow rhythm marks the signal. A break-in at rest is even louder: a sharp jolt plus a lasting change in the echo pattern of the doors.

In the physics: RF penetrates cargo stacks and thin walls; a concealed human adds a breathing-band micro-Doppler signature and perturbs multipath amplitudes even when motionless. Door breach and human entry create large transient Doppler plus a step change in CIR path structure.
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Bring this into the real roomCabin Presence Node1 sensing nodes · ~$40 parts · about 45 min
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How the field becomes an answer

Micro-Doppler 0.1-0.5Hz breathing detector + CIR sparse-recovery step-change detector MVE anomaly vs sealed-trailer baseline RTI differential for rough position inside the box.

How we prove it

Presence and through-wall detection are class-A on ESP32-wall (LOS/NLOS AUC 0.69) and OPERAnet; own experiment: loaded 40ft trailer, person concealed behind pallets at 3 depths, day-long empty-trailer false-alarm run.

Who it is for

Anti-stowaway and cargo-intrusion certification for cross-border fleets — one $100 mesh per trailer, sold to fleet security directors and customs-compliance officers facing clandestine-entrant fines.

runtime Runs today in LatentField 2.0 as breathing_rate

Complete first-room estimateCabin Presence Node1 nodes · ~$40 parts · 45 min Request kit, subscribe, or set up →
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