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by rf-monitor 46 days ago
I'm building an RF monitoring system.

It can tell you things like:

- The car that parked nearby last night coincided with a "Derek's Galaxy Buds" device with MAC address aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff. The buds also drove by briefly the previous night.

- Alert on sudden cross-specturm disturbance (e.g. burglars using a cheap jammer to disable WiFi cameras).

- Alert on known device contact loss (powered off / left premises).

- Review device movement across a campus/neighborhood (using multiple listening pods).

I have a working PoC. It can run on a cheap, low-power computer (e.g. Raspberry Pi) supporting multiple RF sensors (BT/BLE/WiFi). Has a web UI. Can publish events to an external security system. Currently working on an LLM interface to make it trivial for a non-technical operator to set policies and ask questions about events.

Could be sold as an appliance or a license for a DIY build.

Seed investors are welcome to contact rf-monitor@tuta.com

2 comments

> - The car that parked nearby last night coincided with a "Derek's Galaxy Buds" device with MAC address aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff. The buds also drove by briefly the previous night.

Are there still lots of devices that don't do randomized MACs? Apple and Android are not that easily trackable anymore.

You're monitoring all the available channels and then correlating them together?
Yes, especially since many peripherals use both BT and BLE.