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Default Odd camera on lampost - pointing almost vertically downwards

Brian Gaff wrote

Maybe it just counts vehicles?


No need for two of them pointing the same way for that.

"nightjar" wrote in message
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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.


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