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Inferring car movement patterns from passive TPMS measurements

38 pointsby wisdomseakertoday at 7:45 AM5 commentsview on HN

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RyJonestoday at 9:51 AM

I built a demo of this back when I worked at Qualcomm in Seattle; match this with WiFi beacons and you can trace a person fairly well. It's been over a decade, but at the time both iOS and Android would send pings fairly frequently to all known WiFi networks looking to see if they should switch to a faster one. With your device ID, list of SSIDs you know, and your TPMS data, a person can learn a lot about you.

Like, where do you work? Where do you stay (Hotel SSIDs)? Who are your friends (other people's home SSIDs)?

EvanAndersontoday at 8:26 AM

I have an RTL SDR setup in a retail business receiving temperatures from sensors around the property. Besides the neighbors' weather stations I see a lot of TPMS coming, presumably, from the parking lot. I see the same cars regularly. I could definitely correlate them with the POS terminals and identify individual customers.

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