Wavelens

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What it finds ยท Named

Fleet vehicles

Buses, ambulances, delivery and utility fleets: their telematics, dash cams and routers. Named, never alerted.

What it is

Hardware that rides on commercial and public vehicles: telematics gateways (Samsara, Geotab-class), fleet dash cams (Lytx, SmartDrive), school-bus trackers and cameras (Zonar, Seon), transit passenger-information and automatic-vehicle-location gear (Trapeze, Luminator, Init), and the Cradlepoint, Sierra Wireless and Peplink routers that give all of them a connection.

Who uses it

Transit agencies, school districts, ambulance services, utilities, delivery and trucking fleets, plus public agencies that buy the same routers.

What it can see

The vehicle's own position, speed and camera feed, for its operator. These systems are about the vehicle they are bolted to, not about you.

What it can't do

Nothing here reads plates, records you or tracks your phone. A router's vendor prefix cannot say what kind of vehicle it is in.

How Wavelens finds it

IEEE vendor prefixes for the makers above. Kept in their own category so a bus, an ambulance or a fleet truck does not trip a body-cam or plate-reader alert on the strength of a router that every fleet uses.

What to do when you see one

Nothing. If one of these is riding with you, that is your own vehicle's telematics or a rental's โ€” mark it Mine.

Phone or companion?

The phone alone hears these over Bluetooth and Wi-Fi. A companion adds range, not a new kind of detection.

See fleet vehicles named while you drive

Wavelens names fleet vehicles as it hears them, so the trackers, cameras and drones stand out from the crowd, and a device that keeps pace with you is noticed. Everyone who joins the Android beta before the Play Store launch gets the Play version free with a promo code. Offline, no account, no network permission.

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Confirmed only when the device describes itself ยท 282 signatures ยท nothing leaves the phone

Classification is a best-effort guess from public signature data. Check before you act on it. None of this is a claim about who owns a device, why it is there, or whether it is lawful.

Where this comes from

  • IEEE OUI / MA-L registry (Wi-Fi and Bluetooth address vendor prefixes)
  • Vendor public documentation and product pages

Other kinds

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