📡 BLE Radar — Turn your Android phone into a privacy-first sensor for the world around you.
I built BLE Radar because our phones can detect far more about the physical environment than we normally get to see.
Bluetooth. Wi-Fi. Cellular signals. Navigation data. Magnetic fields. Pressure. Light. Sound. Environmental conditions.
BLE Radar brings those layers together and lets you contribute measurements to a shared geographic atlas. 🌍
🛰️ WHAT BLE RADAR DOES
Walk, cycle or travel with BLE Radar and help map real-world coverage.
Depending on your device and available sensors, BLE Radar can collect layers such as:
📶 Bluetooth surroundings
🌐 Wi-Fi environment
📡 Cellular coverage
🧭 GNSS / navigation data
🧲 Magnetic measurements
🌡️ Pressure and environmental data
🌙 Ambient light
🔊 Ambient sound levels
🚗 Movement / vehicle speed
🌦️ Weather and air-quality context
The goal is not just to show nearby devices.
It is to gradually build a shared, multi-layer map of the invisible environment around us.
🌍 THE SHARED ATLAS
The public atlas currently contains:
🗺️ 1,346 measured H3 cells
Every contribution helps expand real-world geographic coverage.
🌱 SCANNING CAN ALSO CREATE REAL IMPACT
BLE Radar connects scanning activity with verified environmental and social impact through 1ClickImpact.
The verified impact ledger currently reports:
🌳 11 trees
🌊 2.7 kg of ocean waste removed
☁️ 2.3 kg of carbon impact
🐾 $1 for animal welfare
Users can choose which available impact cause their scanning contributes toward.
So exploring the invisible world can also help fund something visible.
🔐 PRIVACY FIRST
BLE Radar was designed around privacy rather than collecting personal movement histories for advertising.
The focus is environmental and radio measurements, shared geographic coverage and transparent impact accounting.
💙 FREE ON ANDROID
BLE Radar is available now on Google Play:
I’m building this independently and BLE Radar is still early, so feedback from Android users is extremely valuable.
If you try it, I’d especially love to know:
💬 Which sensor layer do you find most interesting?
💬 What would you like to see added to the atlas?
💬 Does the idea of turning everyday scanning into verified environmental impact make sense to you?
📡 Map invisible signals.
🗺️ Build coverage.
🌱 Fund verified planet impact.
Thanks for checking out BLE Radar 😊