What it finds · Named

Vehicles

A car's own radios: tyre sensors, head units, key fobs. Mark yours as Mine once.

What it is

A vehicle's own radios: tyre-pressure sensors that use Bluetooth, head units and infotainment, OBD dongles, key fobs, e-bikes and scooters, and some telematics boxes.

Who uses it

Every modern car, and most micromobility devices. Fleet and rental vehicles often add telematics.

What it can see

Mostly nothing: tyre sensors report pressure and temperature; head units pair with the driver's phone. Telematics units may log position and driving behaviour for the fleet owner.

What it can't do

A car's radios do not observe you. If one is "riding with you", it is almost always the car you are in.

How Wavelens finds it

BLE manufacturer company IDs and name patterns for tyre-sensor and head-unit makers; address vendor prefixes; co-movement behaviour.

What to do when you see one

Mark your own car's emitters as "Mine" so they stop appearing in riding and recurring alerts.

Phone or companion?

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

See vehicles named while you drive

Wavelens names 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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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

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

Other kinds

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