{"id":23706,"date":"2026-03-13T18:16:04","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T09:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/?p=23706"},"modified":"2026-03-13T18:16:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T09:16:04","slug":"smarter-house-zero-cameras-the-squire-house-sensing-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/?p=23706","title":{"rendered":"Smarter House, Zero Cameras: the Squire House Sensing Platform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hackster.imgix.net\/uploads\/attachments\/1938046\/_lqHaEL1z9O.blob?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;w=400&amp;h=300&amp;fit=min\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"hckui__typography__bodyL\">A well-designed dwelling automation system can supply us a variety of comfort and might even save us cash. However to get probably the most out of the system, now we have to be ready to make some fairly huge compromises. At first is privateness. To gather the required information, dwelling automation methods usually depend on cameras, microphones, and different such invasive sensors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"hckui__typography__bodyL\">However can we get the info we&#8217;d like in a manner that protects the person\u2019s privateness? Vigil Techniques believes we will, and so they have simply introduced a crowdfunding marketing campaign to construct the Squire House Sensing Platform to show it. It will possibly present high-resolution movement, presence, and room geometry data with out violating the person\u2019s privateness.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"image_carousel__container__hGUHe undefined\">\n<p><span>One other take a look at the system (\ud83d\udcf7: Vigil Techniques)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"hckui__typography__bodyL\">As an alternative of cameras, Squire depends on a classy mixture of radar and depth sensing know-how to construct a spatial mannequin of an indoor surroundings. By fusing information from twin 24 GHz mmWave radar modules, a 60 GHz radar sensor, and a high-resolution direct Time-of-Flight (dToF) depth sensor, the system can observe motion and exercise inside a room whereas maintaining identities nameless.<\/p>\n<p class=\"hckui__typography__bodyL\">This method permits Squire to seize a lot richer data than typical movement sensors. Customary PIR movement detectors solely point out whether or not motion occurred, whereas single radar modules usually battle to interpret spatial construction. Squire\u2019s sensor fusion method permits it to assemble a dynamic map of a room, monitoring a number of individuals concurrently and figuring out their trajectories, positions, and refined micro-movements from so far as eight meters away.<\/p>\n<p class=\"hckui__typography__bodyL\">The platform is powered by the Nucleo STM32 H533RE improvement board, enabling all sensing and information processing to happen domestically on the system. Meaning the system doesn&#8217;t depend on cloud connectivity for its core performance, making certain that delicate spatial information stays underneath the person\u2019s management.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"hckui__layout__marginTop30 hckui__layout__marginBottom30 hckui__layout__fullWidth\"><figcaption class=\"hckui__typography__textCenter hckui__typography__pebble hckui__typography__bodyS hckui__layout__marginTop10\">An actual-time depth map (\ud83d\udcf7: Vigil Techniques)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"hckui__typography__bodyL\">Builders may also achieve direct entry to the platform\u2019s uncooked information streams, together with radar monitoring data, structured occasion logs, and 54\u00d742 depth frames from the dToF sensor. This makes Squire notably interesting for researchers and engineers who need to experiment with room-scale sensing, gesture recognition, or occupancy-aware automation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"hckui__typography__bodyL\"><span>Vigil Techniques notes that the firmware, schematics, and developer documentation will probably be launched after the crowdfunding marketing campaign concludes, giving builders the instruments they should construct new privacy-preserving sensing purposes on prime of the platform. The value and launch date haven&#8217;t but been introduced, however you possibly can <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crowdsupply.com\/vigil-systems\/squire-home-sensing-platform\" class=\"hckui__typography__linkBlue\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">join notifications<\/a><span> to be one of many first individuals to seek out out.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A well-designed dwelling automation system can supply us a variety of comfort and might even save us cash. However to get probably the most out of the system, now we have to be ready to make some fairly huge compromises. At first is privateness. To gather the required information, dwelling automation methods usually depend on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23708,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23706"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23707,"href":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23706\/revisions\/23707"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}