What are the wireless thingies hanging under streetlights?

[nhfire77]

There's three different things I see on the road.

1. I think those are the receivers for emergency vehicle override signals.
2. Traffic Monitoring Cameras
3. Red Light Ticket Cameras

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Its called an Opticom. It does override the traffic signals in order of priority:

1-Trains
2-Fire
3-Police
4-Mass Transit (some places put them on buses to move them along, making it more efficient.)

 

[dereckbc]

Its called an Opticom. It does override the traffic signals in order of priority:

1-Trains
2-Fire
3-Police
4-Mass Transit (some places put them on buses to move them along, making it more efficient.)

We have them all over around here too, but they are not on street lights, they are on the traffic lights.

Heck I even know where you can by the infrared transmitters and codes for each city.

 

[richwaskowitz]

They look like this

They look like this

PCN put a link in his reply which had a pretty good picture of what I was talking about. It's the one in the upper right corner under the street light. If that is a repeater, then I sit corrected. O though for sure they were for getting data back to the POCO not for non-POCO use.

http://www.roamservices.net/index.html

 

[richwaskowitz]

Sorry. Wrong link

Sorry. Wrong link

This is the link to the picture I meant to attach.

http://www.wherry.com/gadgets/ricochet/index.html

 

[480sparky]

This is the link to the picture I meant to attach.

http://www.wherry.com/gadgets/ricochet/index.html

How's this?

 

[George Stolz]

Wow! Dial-up speed service for the cost of dialup, only accessible within a block of where they stick a transmitter, using a clunky device that doesn't plug directly into my laptop? Where do I sign!?

I think those poor folks feel victim to wireless routers left unlocked all over, it sounds like a similar setup with slower hardware. Backed the wrong horse in the data race, I suppose.

 

[wamegojim]

cool

cool

George,

What did you use to make those circles and numbers on the picture you posted? Just an image editor?

 

[wireguru]

This is the link to the picture I meant to attach.

http://www.wherry.com/gadgets/ricochet/index.html

i posted that one on the first page :smile:

 

[foqnc]

George,

What did you use to make those circles and numbers on the picture you posted? Just an image editor?

I'm George, but I have done the same using Paint