Buildings · Frontier
Commissioning Copilot: Poke-and-Learn Building Twin
During commissioning week, the building teaches the system every damper, door and fan it has.
Plausible physics, early work — shown honestly as an experiment.
How it works
The system runs the building through its motions — dampers, doors, blinds, elevators — one at a time, watching how each action changes the WiFi field. Because each change happens on command, its signature is learned cleanly. The result is a building that can verify its own equipment states for the rest of its life.
In the physics: Every actuator changes either geometry (doors, blinds: multipath tap constellation), materials (moisture, fill: eps_r field) or vibration (fans, pumps: micro-Doppler lines). Controlled perturbation with known labels isolates each actuator's signature dimension from ambient variance — the building teaches the sensor its own vocabulary.
See it work
This is real pipeline output for Buildings, replayed. The exact reading depends on your room.
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How the field becomes an answer
How we prove it
Own-hardware: one BMS-connected floor, scripted actuation of 20+ points during a weekend, measure how many actuators yield a discoverable axis (target >70%) and 30-day observed-vs-commanded agreement; SenseFi/CSI-Bench for feature-space transferability across node placements.
Who it is for
For the smart-building integrator / master systems architect: 'A digital twin that verifies itself — every damper, door and fan gets an independent physics witness, taught in one weekend, watching forever.'
The matching solution
Complete first-room estimateFloor Utilization Node3 nodes · ~$130 parts · 90 min Request kit, subscribe, or set up →Compatible DIY hardware options
120 min · advanced
240 min · installer