Someone on here is always saying that they also log Bluetooth and wifi MACs and associate these with images. Doesn’t sound like that’s the case though.
as my colleague here at The Drive unfortunately discovered first-hand last month. Leonardo has more recently marketed a new product called SignalTrace that isn’t an ALPR but can be paired with them to correlate plates with various wireless signals, including Wi-Fi and Bluetooth as well as frequencies emitted by everything from tire pressure monitoring sensors to pet microchips.
Mind you, I personally take these claims with a grain of salt. I know personally that you have to hold a normal scanner right against a dog or cat’s skin to pick up the microchip. I don’t believe a roadside sensor is going to pick up a pet’s microchip as you drive by.
Someone on here is always saying that they also log Bluetooth and wifi MACs and associate these with images. Doesn’t sound like that’s the case though.
Some people are jumping the gun. The newest versions of the cameras are supposed to be able to do that , but they have not been deployed yet. Or at least not deployed widely.
Mind you, I personally take these claims with a grain of salt. I know personally that you have to hold a normal scanner right against a dog or cat’s skin to pick up the microchip. I don’t believe a roadside sensor is going to pick up a pet’s microchip as you drive by.
Maybe it can pick up the ones in all those suckers that got the covid vaccine though.