1ClickImpact Partners with BLE Radar: Turning Your Phone's Sensors Into Real Planet Impact
BLE Radar turns the invisible signals your phone already senses into real trees, ocean cleanup, and captured carbon - fulfilled live through the 1ClickImpact API, with light-pollution and noise causes on the way.
An atlas of the invisible world, where the signals your phone already senses become real trees, cleaner oceans, and captured carbon.
“Your phone is already scanning. Turn it into a real tree.”
At 1ClickImpact, our mission is to make real environmental impact as simple as a single API call. Today we are thrilled to announce our partnership with BLE Radar, a phone sensor network that quietly turns the invisible signals around you into trees in the ground and plastic out of the ocean.
What started as turning nearby Bluetooth and WiFi density into funded planet impact has, in the last week, grown into an atlas of the invisible world. Every unit of impact it earns is fulfilled live through the 1ClickImpact impact API.
Reading Seven Invisible Layers of the World
BLE Radar turns an ordinary Android phone into a field instrument. As you go about your day, it passively reads the environmental signals your phone already senses and maps them onto a shared, crowdsourced grid. No extra hardware, no effort. It is less a scanner and more a window onto the layers of the world we usually cannot see.
Bluetooth & WiFi density
Anonymous, aggregate counts of nearby devices per area.
Cellular signal quality
Strength readings from 0 to 4, with no tower identification.
Magnetic anomalies
Deviations from Earth's field that reveal steel and infrastructure.
Air pressure
Sea level normalised readings with hourly tendency tracking.
Night sky light
Artificial light pollution, measured under the right conditions.
Ambient noise
Sound levels only. No audio is recorded, ever, and none is transmitted.
Privacy is the whole design
Every reading is anonymous and aggregate. In BLE Radar's own words: “No device addresses, no cell tower IDs, no raw location ever leaves your phone.” The network learns the shape of the invisible world without ever learning anything about you.
How a Scan Becomes a Real Tree
The magic is in the loop. As you passively contribute coverage to the map, BLE Radar accumulates credits. When a full unit is reached, it calls the 1ClickImpact API and funds a real action, fulfilled by a vetted project partner rather than left as a promise.
Scan passively
Your phone maps invisible layers onto real H3 hexagons, roughly 0.1 km each, as you move.
Earn a unit
Coverage you contribute accumulates as credits until a full impact unit is reached.
Fund real impact
1ClickImpact plants the tree, removes the plastic, or captures the carbon, live.
The impact catalog BLE Radar draws on
Plant Trees
Reforestation on the ground
Clean Ocean
Plastic pulled from the sea
Capture Carbon
CO₂ removed and stored
Fund Causes
Animal welfare, clean water and more
Why this matters: BLE Radar never asks its users to open a wallet. Impact is earned through data people were generating anyway, the purest form of impact as an API.
Impact You Can Verify, Not Just Trust
BLE Radar's live impact page does not show numbers it made up. The figures are “1ClickImpact's own verified account totals, read directly from them,” verified via 1ClickImpact and not a self reported estimate.
Named certificates, not badges
Each completed unit issues a named certificate with the real unit count and a verification code, by email. Not a badge you could lose access to, and not a number that can drop to zero.
Honest, standard math
Conversions use standard USDA Forest Service factors, about 21.8 kg CO2 per tree per year, and average passenger vehicle figures. A year of scanning can offset roughly 220 kg of CO2, about 888 km of car driving.
Proof, with your name on it
Hi Jordan,
Your phone kept scanning, and it added up to something real. When the impact your BLE Radar activity earned was actually purchased, 1ClickImpact issued this certificate in your name, with the real unit count.
funded through passive signal mapping with BLE Radar
Trees plantedImpact made possible with
1ClickImpact
A preview of the custom, verified confirmation email BLE Radar users receive. Real emails carry the recipient's own name, unit count, and certificate link.
Explore the Atlas of the Invisible
Coverage hexagons light up only when a real phone has physically passed through them. Nothing is modelled or interpolated, just a real report of every invisible layer the network has recorded.
What Is Next: Sensors That Fund the Causes They Measure
Here is where the partnership gets genuinely poetic. BLE Radar now measures night sky light pollution and ambient noise, so the natural next step is to let those very readings fund the organisations fighting those exact problems. The sensor that detects the harm helps heal it. Two custom causes are on the roadmap.
DarkSky International
Light pollution and dark sky preservation
BLE Radar already maps artificial night sky light. Directing impact to dark sky preservation means every glow the network records can help fund the fight to give the stars back.
Noise Pollution Clearinghouse
Noise pollution and soundscape protection
The app measures ambient sound levels, never audio. Pairing that with soundscape protection turns a map of noise into support for quieter, healthier places to live.
The bigger picture: because 1ClickImpact exposes impact as simple API calls, adding a brand new cause is a configuration change, not a fundraising campaign. That is what lets a small app dream this big.
Want to Build Something Like BLE Radar?
BLE Radar shows what 1ClickImpact is built for: any app, any workflow, can turn an action into real environmental impact with a single call. Tree planting, ocean plastic removal, carbon capture, and cause donations are all one endpoint away.
Impact API
One REST call plants a tree, removes plastic, or captures carbon, with per customer attribution and metadata.
Read the docsZapier & Webhooks
No code automation and real time webhooks so impact fires exactly when your events do.
Explore integrationsCertificates & Tracking
Verified totals, per customer breakdowns, and named certificates, the same features BLE Radar surfaces to users.
See featuresTurn your next click into real impact
Whether you run a phone sensor network or a checkout page, 1ClickImpact makes planet impact a one line integration. Start planting, cleaning, and capturing today.
Make an ImpactFrequently Asked Questions
What is BLE Radar?+
BLE Radar is a phone sensor network that turns an Android phone into a field instrument reading seven invisible layers of the world: Bluetooth and WiFi density, cellular signal, magnetic anomalies, air pressure, night sky light pollution, and ambient noise. Passive scanning earns credits, and each completed unit funds real planet impact through the 1ClickImpact API.
How does scanning turn into real trees and ocean cleanup?+
As you passively scan, BLE Radar accumulates credits from the coverage you contribute. When a full unit is reached, the app calls the 1ClickImpact API to fund a real action, such as planting a tree, removing ocean plastic, or capturing carbon, fulfilled by a vetted project partner.
Is my data private?+
Yes. Every reading is anonymous and aggregate. No device addresses, no cell tower IDs, and no raw location ever leaves your phone. For ambient noise, sound levels are measured but no audio is recorded, ever, and none is transmitted.
Is the impact actually verified?+
Yes. The numbers on BLE Radar's pages are 1ClickImpact's own verified account totals, read directly from the API, not self reported estimates. Tree and carbon conversions use standard USDA Forest Service and average passenger vehicle factors.
What are the impact certificates?+
When a unit completes, 1ClickImpact issues a named certificate with unit counts and a verification code by email. It is a real, verifiable record rather than an in app badge or points.
What new causes will BLE Radar support next?+
BLE Radar plans to fund custom causes that mirror what its sensors measure: DarkSky International for light pollution and dark sky preservation, and the Noise Pollution Clearinghouse for noise pollution and soundscape protection.
Learn More About BLE Radar
Read about the app and watch the live impact counters run off the 1ClickImpact integration at sevinhub.com/bleradar. You can also explore the live map and the verified impact page.