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Useful idea for usage: Point a WiFi-dish/antenna towards the plane and gather WiFi & Bluetooth MAC addresses for all the passengers. Now you can make statistics
by punnerud 5y ago
Useful idea for usage:
Point a WiFi-dish/antenna towards the plane and gather WiFi & Bluetooth MAC addresses for all the passengers. Now you can make statistics about the number of passengers, how long /often they travel ++ good information if you want to trade stocks in airplane companies.
You can direct the antenna precisely because you have the image recognition in addition to GPS.
- punnerud 5y agoYou can also provide the plane with WiFi access this way. A passenger can easily activate WiFi in combination with Airplane Mode on most phones (including iPhone)
- Tepix 5y agoMAC address randomization makes this harder.
- frontman1988 5y agoIt's impossible given how fast planes fly
- upofadown 5y agoPlanes don't fly that fast. The body of the aircraft would tend to shield the signals though.
- brokenmachine 5y agoThis is precisely the kind of comment that I come to hacker news for. Love it!