Is Bluetooth Scanning important to know number of Bluetooth enabled devices around you?

Bluetooth like Wi-Fi, is another way any electronic gadget can connect to the next gadget. Though range of the Bluetooth connectivity is one-on-one unlike Wi-Fi, connecting to an unknown one can cause several problems like unintended and unwanted passing on or receiving data that could be potentially harmful. Each gadget has been provided with a software wherein you are asked permission before connecting.

Yet there could be lapse of understanding and you could grant it, it could become especially difficult if you have multiple devices at a particular location. When permission is granted to receive or transfer files, you could end up allowing wrong device to enter your gadget even enable pilfering of information or setting up a virus in your gadget.

Scanning for Bluetooth can actually warn you of number of external routers working and that you could connect to them mistakenly. IOLO does Bluetooth scanning and can help you be aware of possibility of unintended sharing of information to any gadget that could be potentially dangerous to you.