BlueTOADS

Did you know your Bluetooth Mac address is picked up (or at least in some cities) when you are driving?
It is picked up by a piece of technology called blueTOADS. So why does it pick up your Bluetooth Mac address?
It is simply to monitor traffic flow it is used to determine travel times and route behaviors. But who uses this
data and what is the point of collecting it? Well, it is used by transportation engineers to monitor and adjust signal timing.
Suppose there was a specific street that had heavy traffic the transportation professionals would be able to
tell by the help of blueTOADS. They can then adjust signal timing to manage that traffic and prevent traffic buildup on other streets.
It will basically be placed at point A and point B and when the car drives through point A blueTOADS will pick up the
mac address and then again at point B and then it will be able to determine how fast the vehicle is and how much traffic is present.
I specifically found out about this when I went to tour my city's TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT CENTRE!
When I entered I could see a bunch of screens that were monitoring traffic through cameras!
One of the traffic engineers told me about blueTOADS and how it works. Honestly, I was pretty
amazed by tech and surprised by the fact that our anonymous Bluetooth imprint is
picked up every time we stop at an intersection. (It usually looks like that white box in the pic below)