/ ON THE WORKBENCH — WIFITHREATWATCH NANO · IN DEVELOPMENT

A sentry that
never sleeps.

The app protects the device it runs on. The Nano protects the whole network — a small, always-on box that watches the air around the clock, so nothing slips past while you’re away or asleep.

/ THE IDEA

A watchtower for your network

The WiFiThreatWatch app is excellent at defending the computer it’s installed on. But most of what’s on your network isn’t a computer — it’s phones, cameras, speakers, plugs, and a router, none of them running security software.

The Nano is our answer: a small, dedicated box that sits on your network and does one job forever — watch the air for attacks, keep a record, and share it — so the whole network is covered, not just the machine you happen to be using.

It runs the same detection engine as the app — the very same code, reused rather than reimplemented — so its verdicts line up with what you already trust. It just never has to be opened, plugged in, or awake.

Same detectors. Always on. Watching everything, and remembering it.

NANO
WIFITHREATWATCH NANOa small always-on sentry you plug into any Wi-Fi — two radios, no screen, never off
/ WHY IT’S MORE THAN THE APP

Five things a piece of software on your laptop simply can’t do

The app is free, and it’s the right tool for the device it runs on. The Nano exists for everything the app, by its nature, can’t reach — the hours you’re asleep, the devices with nothing installed, the history you’d want before you trust a network, and the attacks Windows can only guess at.

01/ IT NEVER SLEEPS

Always on, even when everything else is off

The app can only watch while your PC is awake. The Nano is a fixed box that watches around the clock — so an attack at 3 a.m., with every laptop in the house asleep, is still caught and written to a history you can read in the morning.

YOUR PC + APP
NANO
12a6a12p6p12a
The 3 a.m. attack lands in the PC’s blind spot — and squarely inside the Nano’s watch.
24 / 7 vs WHEN YOU’RE AWAKEthe app watches while your PC is on — the Nano never blinks, so the 3 a.m. attack is still caught
02/ THE WHOLE NETWORK

One sentry for every device on the Wi-Fi

The app protects the machine it runs on. The Nano watches the whole network — your phone, your TV, the smart plug, the camera, all the things that can’t run security software of their own. One box, the entire LAN.

THE APP
🛡 your PC
protects the device it runs on
THE NANO · ONE SENTRY
laptop
phone
TV
camera
bulb
printer
🛡 watches every device on the WiFi — even the ones that can’t run software
ONE DEVICE vs THE WHOLE NETWORKthe app guards the machine it runs on — the Nano watches everything on the WiFi, installed or not
03/ A BLACK BOX FOR THE NETWORK

Read what it saw the moment you join

The Nano keeps its own history of every attack it witnesses. When your app joins the Wi-Fi, it discovers the Nano on the LAN and reads that history over a small read-only local connection — no cloud round-trip, works even with the internet down. So instead of trusting a network blind, you can see what a resident sentry has already caught here before you commit to it.

YOUR APP
just joined
new to this Wi-Fi
finds it (mDNS) →← reads its log
NANO
local history
on the LAN, no cloud
🛡
Protected by Nano — 3 attacks in its log (24h)decide whether to trust the network before you commit to it
READ IT ON JOINthe moment you connect, the app finds the Nano and reads what it has already seen — before you trust the network
04/ THE FRONTIER: FRAMES, NOT SYMPTOMS

The one thing Windows can never do

A consumer Wi-Fi card on Windows can’t enter monitor mode, so the app infers some attacks from their symptoms. The Nano is Linux with a dedicated monitor-capable radio — which is the whole reason it can chase the frontier the app never will: reading the actual 802.11 frames for real deauth floods and evil-twin beacons. The platform-independent LAN attacks — ARP spoofing, rogue DHCP — it already runs today; frame-level 802.11 is what that second radio is being built to unlock.

THE APP · WINDOWSmanaged mode — no frame access
deauth? → 3 disconnects observed
evil twin? → BSSID / DNS mismatch
✗ can’t read the raw frames
infers from symptoms
THE NANO · MONITOR RADIOmonitor mode — reads the air
⚑ deauth frame · spoofed source
⚑ rogue beacon · unknown BSSID
✓ the attack itself, on the wire
reads the frames directly
SYMPTOM vs FRAMEWindows can only infer an attack from its symptoms — a monitor radio reads the attack frames themselves
05/ A PERMANENT NODE

A watchtower that never logs off the network

Because it’s always on, the Nano is a permanent contributor to the shared threat intelligence network — every attack reported under the same guarded model as the app: the attacker’s rogue hardware documented in full, your own network hashed before anything leaves the device. One always-watching node in a neighborhood makes the next person’s warning likelier to already exist.

SHAREDDB1 device sharing · grows with every user
IT COMPOUNDSthe database is young — every device that joins makes the next warning likelier to already be there
/ THE SHAPE OF IT

Small box, two radios, one job

We’re keeping the deep internals under wraps while it’s on the bench — but here’s the honest shape of what it is, and what it looks like doing its job.

NANO
managed radio · stays connected
monitor radio · sniffs the air
LOCAL ATTACK HISTORY
02:14⚑ ARP_SPOOF
02:11✓ clear
01:47⚑ ROGUE_DHCP
01:32✓ clear
00:58⚑ DEAUTH
🛡 advertises “Nano-protected” on your LAN
WIFITHREATWATCH NANOa headless sensor running the same detectors 24/7 — even when your PC is asleep
FORM
A small, headless box you plug into any Wi-Fi — Raspberry Pi–class, roughly $165 in parts.
RADIOS
Two: one stays associated to your network, one is monitor-capable — the path to reading 802.11 frames directly.
ENGINE
The same detection code as the desktop app — reused, not a fork — so its verdicts match the app’s exactly.
KEEPS
A local history of every attack it sees, in its own database, capped so the card never fills.
ANNOUNCES
Advertises itself on your LAN (mDNS), so the app shows “🛡 Protected by Nano” the moment you join.
SHARES
A read-only local view to the app, plus guarded reports to the shared threat database.
/ STRAIGHT WITH YOU

It’s on the bench — not on a shelf

The Nano is a prototype. It works, we’re refining it, and there’s more we’re not ready to show yet — the details that make it quiet, reliable, and genuinely plug-and-play are exactly the parts still being sharpened. We’d rather say that plainly than dress a lab bench up as a product page.

What you can do today is run the app — it’s free, it’s the same detection engine the Nano runs, and it’s the fastest way to see this kind of protection on your own network right now.

[ hardware in prototype — not yet for sale ]

The Nano is coming.
The protection is already here.