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Open mobile devices using Wi-Fi

I want to track people (carrying mobile devices) on a pedestrian street using the two “control points” A and B.

I plan to place mobile devices or netbooks with Android / IOS or Linux at each checkpoint and register an identifier so that I can find out how many of them passed from A to B. I know that I can open other people's devices using bluetooth, but this can i do using wifi? I'm thinking of turning my devices into Wi-Fi hotspots. People, of course, will not connect to the access point, just passing by.

So my question is: can this be done on the mentioned platforms? It is very important that I can tell if the same person went through both A and B by registering a “device identifier”, that is, a MAC address.

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I found Kismet that can do what I want. But its only * unix, so I plan to use small "netbooks" instead of mobile devices. I also tested Ubertooth One, which can detect all Bluetooth devices by sniffing lap addresses.

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You should be able to do this, but only for devices with WiFi and actively look for WiFi access points that may be relatively small of the devices that pass by. The MAC address of each device will be unique, and you can use it to map the same device between your two points.

Hi,

Mark

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Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/898088/

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