"dennis@home" wrote in message
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On 24/10/2019 16:39, nightjar wrote:
On 24/10/2019 16:27, NY wrote:
In a village near me there is a lamp-post in a 30 mph zone which has a
rectangular metal "tube" about 1 foot long by 6" square which is
pointing straight down at the road surface by the post. There is also
another device alongside, again pointing at the road. There are no road
markings like you get with speed cameras. I presume the larger device is
a camera and the smaller one is a light. The cameras are angled so
steeply that they could not see the number-plate of a car. There is also
a box on the lamp-post which may be some form of control module.

https://i.postimg.cc/h49P8qLF/vlcsna...s127-small.png

Ignore the curvature of the lamp-post: it's distortion from the lens in
my dashcam: I had to wait until I was close to the lamp-post to get the
largest image, and that's when it's on the edge of the frame where
distortion is greatest.

Any ideas? I'm intrigued.

My guess would be a CCTV system that is not yet in use.



My guess is it might be a traffic census

Ours do that with two tubes nailed to the road
going to a box which is chained and padlocked
to a tree or sign post poll. Much easier to move
around done like that.

or possibly monitoring the surface conditions.

Sounds very unlikely to me.

Of course it could be a camera someone has climbed up the pole and shifted
so the ANPR doesn't keep catching them, but they are usually somewhat
smaller and in ones.