BLEMon

BLEMon is an app developed by the Real-time Computing Lab (RTCL) in the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. It is a part of a larger project aiming at characterizing the privacy threats posed by devices in the context of the Internet of Things (IoT). Some of these devices, that you use, might enable others to track you, profile you, and learn more information about you. For example, if others know you are wearing a Glucose monitor or pump, then it might indicate a certain health condition.

In our project, we aim to quantify how much information do these IoT devices leak about an individual. In particular, we need your help to collect information that these devices publicly broadcast. We focus on the devices that are communicate through the BLE (Bluetooth low energy) protocol as it is the most prevalent. As part of this protocol, devices advertise their presence publicly to let others know about them. BLEMon just collects these public advertisements (broadcasts) so that we learn how much information is contained in these advertisements.