Smartphone detector?

RouterOS Wireless Networking
1

Hello,

I just want to know is it possible to use MT as smartphone detector?
As detector I mean to detect phones in range with WiFi turned on…

Thank You in advance!

2

maybe you can use the wireless sniffer with some scripting and look for MACs which belongs to known smartphone vendors. But it will not be 100% reliable. Maybe you want to tell us why you want to detect smartphones.

3

sniffer will reveal only connected to your AP device traffic. Use snooper instead to see wireless frames passing by.

4

I want this to count smartphones (people) in some area and type of their smartphones (mac vendor)…

@janisk; Snooper could be solution :sunglasses: thanx!

5

oh sure snooper not sniffer was what i meant

6

Sounds interesting, should you go the MAC/BIA route, what if someone is carrying a iPhone and a iPad, or a Samsung Galaxy phone, and tab.

Wouldn’t that skew your results somewhat?

7

Pretty limited functionality until Mikrotik make the snooper API better - you cant detect client mac using API as its an interactive CLI command. They have been asked.

You could also look into airmon-ng on OpenWRT too.