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Is this a sensor or camera?
Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2022 6:17 pm
by Alex88
Bit of an odd one, chaps, but would anyone happen to know what this device is above the traffic light?
https://www.google.com/maps/@52.016071, ... 312!8i6656
Only asking because matey reckons that the council use it as CCTV. I told him that's bollocks.
Re: Is this a sensor or camera?
Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2022 6:39 pm
by DeskJockey
Definitely a thingamabob.
Re: Is this a sensor or camera?
Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2022 6:46 pm
by dinny_g
No it’s a Wokeamajig…
Re: Is this a sensor or camera?
Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2022 6:48 pm
by Alex88
It all makes sense now
Re: Is this a sensor or camera?
Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2022 6:50 pm
by DeskJockey
@dinny_g are you sure? I thought they had two wires coming out of them?
Re: Is this a sensor or camera?
Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2022 6:57 pm
by Mito Man
I was going to say maybe an IR sensor but they’re usually a rectangular box and the light across from it has one of those and this thingamajig too.
It’s not big enough to be a council grade camera.
Re: Is this a sensor or camera?
Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2022 7:22 pm
by dinny_g
DeskJockey wrote: Tue Dec 20, 2022 6:50 pm
@dinny_g are you sure? I thought they had two wires coming out of them?
Re: Is this a sensor or camera?
Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2022 7:51 pm
by GG.
Looks like a webcam circa 2000. On top of a birds nest.
Re: Is this a sensor or camera?
Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2022 8:57 pm
by mik
That's one of them nodding birds.
But it's saluting. Presumably to The Queen at the point of erec....
fitment, and now presumably to The King.
Re: Is this a sensor or camera?
Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2022 9:23 pm
by nuttinnew
Re: Is this a sensor or camera?
Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2022 9:27 pm
by JonMad
The Aug 2020 street view shot makes it look more camera-ish
Re: Is this a sensor or camera?
Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2022 6:48 am
by jamcg
Camera. If it was a sensor they’d be 2 on each side and on every other crossing light
Re: Is this a sensor or camera?
Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2022 9:29 am
by Swervin_Mervin
It's an on-crossing detector for the pedestrian phase
ETA: Actually maybe it isn't as it isn't pointing at the crossing on that side! Will be a detector of some sort, but traffic phases are usually dealt with via inductive loops. I can't see any inductive loops int he carriageway though so maybe it is a traffic detector.
Re: Is this a sensor or camera?
Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2022 5:11 pm
by jamcg
wikihow via google wrote:Check for camera detection. Look out for cameras at intersections, which can detect the presence of cars waiting and signal the lights to begin changing.
Find cameras of this type mounted to posts and beams at the intersection, near the traffic lights themselves.
These cameras can also be used to take photos of illegal traffic activity, or they may perform both functions.
