ArgusZero is a Spatial Awareness Platform. It listens to Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, learns what is normal for your space, and flags what is not. Everything stays on your machine.
Pre-release. No tagged version yet.
Illustration, not live data. The rings contract because the hub only listens; a radar pulse would move the other way.
Built for people with real reason to ask what is watching them.
Stalking and domestic violence survivors, journalists, activists, and the advocates and practitioners who support them.
Wi-Fi capture has no transmit path in the code, and a standing test keeps it that way. Bluetooth scanning is passive by default. It records management frames and advertisements, and it does not read the contents of your traffic.
A baseline of the devices and networks in your space, so a new or unusual one stands out.
Deauthentication floods, rogue and cloned access points (evil twins), KARMA-style probe answering, and handshake-capture attempts, as they happen.
Checks radios against an offline vendor registry and curated fingerprints for drones, trackers, and cameras, and says how sure it is.
Register your own devices, and it reports unfamiliar ones that repeatedly appear beside them. In a fixed space that is recurring presence; in motion, a possible follower.
When capture has stopped or a check could not run, the screen says status unknown instead of all clear. A standing test checks the operator pages for this.
A receive-only capture feeds a local database. Analysis turns that into one screen.
No cloud service, no telemetry, no remote calls. The vendor registry and the web assets ship inside the repository.
A second receiver can add position context. The hub detects the same things without any node.
The top of the dashboard answers in four tiers. The fourth exists on purpose.
No high or critical alerts in the last 24 hours.
At least one high-priority alert to read.
At least one active critical alert.
The alert check did not complete. This is not an all-clear.
Without the fourth tier, a failed check and a clean room look the same. The platform treats that as a defect.
It covers the Wi-Fi and Bluetooth bands. Everything else is a physical limit of the antenna and the radio, and the platform says so.
The chart below is a visual summary of the three lists that follow it.
The platform detects radios, so it detects a person carrying a phone. That is a useful primitive, not a fence.
These come from the project’s own documentation, and they apply before anything else on this page.
Wi-Fi capture has no transmit path in the code, and a standing test keeps it that way. Bluetooth scanning is passive by default. An opt-in setting turns on active Bluetooth scanning, which does transmit, so leave it off if the machine has to stay invisible.
Only devices that radiate Wi-Fi or Bluetooth. It recognizes some camera hardware by vendor and fingerprint, but a wired camera, or a recorder that never transmits, is invisible to it. It complements a physical sweep and does not replace one.
It reports unfamiliar devices that repeatedly appear beside your own registered devices. That is a signal, not proof. It detects radios, not people, and rotating addresses limit what it can link.
Yes. There is no cloud service, no telemetry, and no phone-home. Installing it needs a connection to fetch dependencies and container images. Running it does not.
Yes. ArgusZero is free software under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 or later, and the full source is in the repository. It is pre-release software.
ArgusZero is pre-release software. Read the install guide, including the section on what silence means, before relying on it.
git clone https://github.com/arguszero/arguszero.git arguszero
cd arguszero
scripts/provision_db_password.sh
docker compose -f deploy/docker-compose.yml up -d
./install.shThen open http://127.0.0.1:8000/ on the machine itself. The install guide covers first run, verification, and troubleshooting.