Core development plan

Install better.
Diagnose smarter.
On-board stream reduction.

A phased roadmap for the Nexus BLE Gateway focused on field placement quality, local gateway diagnostics, and embedded stream reducers for scalable BLE acquisition.

Product direction

Theme 1

RF Survey / Placement Optimization

Help installers position the gateway and rotate the antenna to get the best BLE field quality.

Theme 2

Persisted Gateway Diagnostics

Add a local gateway flight recorder so support can inspect gateway-side diagnostics after the fact.

Theme 3

Built-in Reducers

Add firmware-supported signal reducers that turn high-volume BLE/sample streams into compact metrics.

Core phased plan

Done
Completed foundation

RF Survey Mode MVP

The live RF Survey mode is now implemented and provides pushed windowed RF quality updates from target BLE sensors.

  • Start, status, and stop survey commands.
  • Windowed RSSI and packet-consistency scoring.
  • Current, best, worst, mean, and final score tracking.
  • Live feedback while the user moves the gateway or rotates the antenna.

Status

This now serves as the installed base for the next RF Survey workflow improvements rather than a future roadmap phase.

P1
Phase 1

RF Survey Mark, Compare, and Export

Build on the RF Survey Mode MVP by allowing users to identify candidate gateway positions, compare the observed RF quality at those positions, and export the result for installation records or support.

  • Mark the current survey state with a label.
  • Compare marks across one or more target sensors.
  • Identify best overall and best per-sensor positions.
  • Export the survey result as JSON and a readable summary.

Reasoning

The purpose is to support a more deliberate installation workflow where the user tests multiple physical positions or antenna orientations and then selects the best-performing option using data.

P2
Phase 2

Persisted Gateway Diagnostics — Flight Recorder

Move detailed BLE gateway diagnostics into a bounded local record-and-query model so the host can access details later when needed.

  • Append-only circular diagnostic log.
  • Compact common record header plus event-specific payloads.
  • Queries by session, address, timestamp, or sequence.
  • Flight-recorder bundles for support and correlation.

Reasoning

Diagnostics are currently handled live by the host, which adds transmission and computation overhead. The gateway is always connected to the host, but gateway-side diagnostics can be stored locally and accessed later instead of streamed live in detail.

P3
Phase 3

First Built-in Reducers

Add firmware-supported reducers that compute compact metrics from raw BLE/sample streams over defined time windows.

  • Reducer registry and common reducer interface.
  • List, configure, enable, disable, and status commands.
  • First accelerometry reducer over fixed windows.
  • Reducer diagnostics captured by the flight recorder.

Reasoning

BLE bandwidth and throughput are always contentious. The hardware can execute dedicated reducers that compute metrics from raw streams, reducing BLE, serial, and host processing load.

Initial focused workflow

01Position gateway
02Rotate antenna
03Measure RSSI
04Check packet consistency
05Score position
06Mark candidates
07Export result
real sensor systems

The Gateway for Real BLE Sensor Systems

Nexus gives mixed sensor systems concurrent links, high-rate streaming, reusable host integration, and clear visibility into data quality — from motion to ECG and beyond.

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