Ambient Field System

A house that senses everything and keeps nothing. The Ambient Field System is a speculative prototype: a specification and a set of objects. Its results are imagined, not measured.

It has no screens, no app and no setup. Pressure-sensitive flooring registers movement without recording where anyone stood. Thermal sensing registers that someone is in the room without saying who. Light, temperature and acoustics shift to match what the room is doing now. The system knows somebody is making tea. It does not know who, or when, or why.

The rule

Sense everything, store nothing, respond minimally. The system has no memory beyond the present moment, so there is no history to leak, subpoena or sell. That is the ethical position, and it is also the engineering constraint. It cannot be switched off by a settings change because there is nothing in it to configure.

What it is for

The target is not efficiency. It is a household that forgets the system is there and notices the day it goes. That is a claim, and it is untested. The Domestic Residency Protocol is how we would find out.

What would count as failure

A household that can name what the system does. If someone can describe it, it has crossed the line from environment to appliance, and the specification has failed on its own terms.