Observed arrival · 2026-11-01
BeaconScout listens for public-safety radio beacons
BeaconScout describes a passive receiver that scans Bluetooth and Wi-Fi broadcasts associated with police body cameras, tasers, and license-plate cameras.
- For
- People checking for nearby public-safety radio signals
- Worth noticing
- It says a phone alone cannot resolve bearing, and that a switched-off device cannot be detected.
Field notes
The page lays out a receive-and-match pipeline: a phone or companion scans Bluetooth and Wi-Fi advertisements, compares hits against vendor identifiers, and combines evidence into confidence tiers. It names Axon body cameras and tasers, several Flock devices, and Raven acoustic sensors; the stated range depends on the setup, with estimates beyond roughly 150 m labeled low-confidence. The site says data stays on-device and sessions export as JSON, but these are product claims rather than independently verified behavior.
Observed signals
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