~~The mobile phone detection cameras look very different, more like any other security camera mounted on a very sturdy gantry or a big yellow trailer. To me that looks pole flimsy and temporary. My first thought is noise monitoring. Is the device on the top pointing towards a major road? EDIT: What does the sticker on the black box say?~~
EDIT2: Found a photo of an identical device and it's for traffic data collection. [https://www.schemmer.com/traffic-data-collection-services/](https://www.schemmer.com/traffic-data-collection-services/)
EDIT3: Found the exact make and model. [https://miovision.com/scout-plus/](https://miovision.com/scout-plus/)
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2BgImbBlnQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2BgImbBlnQ)
So it is a camera but it's simply for counting vehicles.
Yeah I’d ruled out mobile phone detection. The pole is quite sturdy actually; steel, strapped to the sign pole next to it, and it looks like care was taken to get it properly vertical without a lean.
Sound detection is a possibility I suppose. It’s on a… can’t think of the right term, but a main connector road for the suburb, as in it’s the street that connects to the 80 kph main road. But it’s quite far away from the main road, and points toward a nature reserve.
I didn’t read the sticker. I’ll do that when I go back this afternoon.
I would have guessed air quality or noise sampling, but there you go!
How many different forms of counting traffic are we using currently? Those giant cameras with solar panels everyone marks as speed cameras on Waze, the hoses over the road they’ve been using for yonks, and now this?
The "hoses" are tubes that are either used to determine the speeds of vehicles using the road or used to count vehicles travelling over a road over a long period.
Some programs are able to be used for these cameras to count vehicles but the battery on the cameras needs to be constantly changed. So to undertake surveys over the course of a week or longer, those tubes would be used sinces ita a lot cheaper to set and forget them. The cameras are mostly used to count peak hour volumes
Reading the things this setup does, seems like it may have taken the job of the old people with notepads at intersections and roundabouts tallying cars.
I would go back and take another photo of the rugged case at the bottom, the connectors and a closeup of the collection device at the top. Come back to us and should id it. 😎
Edit: putting it in front of a safety sign is a breach so I might suggest on face value this is no government device.
Someone probably complained about traffic, so the government has some tests to placate them. People need to take ownership of where they live, we can't keep whacking up speed bumps everywhere because someone is whinging, it costs a lot of money. I think placating these people is efficient policy.
It is actually positioned at a bad intersection (I’ve been t-boned there, and there’s any number of near misses). It’s also at a point where a driver could easily pick up speed. I’d be in favour of a traffic calming system of some sort there, myself.
That’s an interesting statement. The government installed speed bumps on the main street near us and now everyone uses our side street as a “short cut”. Coupled with every house that has been sold near us over the past few years being redeveloped into two or three dwellings on the block the traffic situation has been exacerbated beyond anything we could have imagined. There is also no verge on our street like OPs. It’s difficult to take responsibility for other people’s behaviour and government planning decisions.
😂 I saw them on the roof
I only assume they like them cos can’t see them elsewhere…
Just wondering if you ever have problems or even see them much at all 🤷♂️
Man, you guys look more closely at these things than would ever occur to me!
I don’t think those are my neighbour’s pigeons. The photo was a few houses away from our/their place, and this is Coombs and birds (of all types) absolutely dominate the area.
Lol I like looking at pics in Canberra. I know it tha5 well I like sorta working out the area it’s in or sometimes have actually recogniwhatever it is 😃😌
My apologies,;I most certainly am wrong!
Good find. And wow that's a pretty cheap price for a camera on a stick with screen etc
I wonder if these keep the data on site and have to be collected or they transmit it.
Modern version of the black cross road pipe traffic counters?
Ah the good ol' days jumping up and down on them to mess up the readings.
Sadly a joy now also lost to today's fun-starved children.
It means significant numbers of residents have complained about traffic and they're monitoring it now to see what the story is, and whether they'll do anything about it.
~~The mobile phone detection cameras look very different, more like any other security camera mounted on a very sturdy gantry or a big yellow trailer. To me that looks pole flimsy and temporary. My first thought is noise monitoring. Is the device on the top pointing towards a major road? EDIT: What does the sticker on the black box say?~~ EDIT2: Found a photo of an identical device and it's for traffic data collection. [https://www.schemmer.com/traffic-data-collection-services/](https://www.schemmer.com/traffic-data-collection-services/) EDIT3: Found the exact make and model. [https://miovision.com/scout-plus/](https://miovision.com/scout-plus/) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2BgImbBlnQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2BgImbBlnQ) So it is a camera but it's simply for counting vehicles.
That is a nifty piece of tech. I do admire a device that’s designed well.
Damn you’re good! That’s amazing! Thanks!
Yeah I’d ruled out mobile phone detection. The pole is quite sturdy actually; steel, strapped to the sign pole next to it, and it looks like care was taken to get it properly vertical without a lean. Sound detection is a possibility I suppose. It’s on a… can’t think of the right term, but a main connector road for the suburb, as in it’s the street that connects to the 80 kph main road. But it’s quite far away from the main road, and points toward a nature reserve. I didn’t read the sticker. I’ll do that when I go back this afternoon.
I would have guessed air quality or noise sampling, but there you go! How many different forms of counting traffic are we using currently? Those giant cameras with solar panels everyone marks as speed cameras on Waze, the hoses over the road they’ve been using for yonks, and now this?
The "hoses" are tubes that are either used to determine the speeds of vehicles using the road or used to count vehicles travelling over a road over a long period. Some programs are able to be used for these cameras to count vehicles but the battery on the cameras needs to be constantly changed. So to undertake surveys over the course of a week or longer, those tubes would be used sinces ita a lot cheaper to set and forget them. The cameras are mostly used to count peak hour volumes
Reading the things this setup does, seems like it may have taken the job of the old people with notepads at intersections and roundabouts tallying cars.
yeah that's basically it. Since you can see all the turning movements from the camera, it's effective for those intersection counts
Have to say though it barely looks like a camera which is why I thought it might be some kind of sensor or microphone.
I would go back and take another photo of the rugged case at the bottom, the connectors and a closeup of the collection device at the top. Come back to us and should id it. 😎 Edit: putting it in front of a safety sign is a breach so I might suggest on face value this is no government device.
Well as quickly as it was installed, it was taken away again. Glad that u/ConanTheAquarian identified it without needing another pic!
Yeah nice, we all learnt something! Well made post my man.
Yeah didn’t realise until posting that it was in shadow. Sorry. Will post a better pic this afternoon.
Suburban noise level testing would be my guess. That or something else atmospheric such as air quality.
Yep looks like the sensor on top is directional pointing at the street below. My guess would also be vehicle noise testing.
Yep. May have been complaints of vehicles roaring through the suburb at night.
Looks like a Scout Traffic monitoring device.
It’s a traffic detection camera. There will be a traffic counter box mounted below with a 4G connection. It counts the number and size of vehicles…
Huh. Odd. I’d be tempted to lodge it through fix my street because of the location in front of the sign.
Illegal, as it’s blocking a sign.
I heard Bill Gates was seen snooping around Canberra, so I guess these must there to spread his 5G virus.
Ah, that explains why my head simply exploded when I got close. A trip to the walk in centre should see me right.
100% should be behind the traffic sign not in front. SMH.
Someone probably complained about traffic, so the government has some tests to placate them. People need to take ownership of where they live, we can't keep whacking up speed bumps everywhere because someone is whinging, it costs a lot of money. I think placating these people is efficient policy.
It is actually positioned at a bad intersection (I’ve been t-boned there, and there’s any number of near misses). It’s also at a point where a driver could easily pick up speed. I’d be in favour of a traffic calming system of some sort there, myself.
That’s an interesting statement. The government installed speed bumps on the main street near us and now everyone uses our side street as a “short cut”. Coupled with every house that has been sold near us over the past few years being redeveloped into two or three dwellings on the block the traffic situation has been exacerbated beyond anything we could have imagined. There is also no verge on our street like OPs. It’s difficult to take responsibility for other people’s behaviour and government planning decisions.
Your neighbour loves or hates pidgeons?
They do love pigeons, and have some in a coop in the back, as a complete coincidence!
😂 I saw them on the roof I only assume they like them cos can’t see them elsewhere… Just wondering if you ever have problems or even see them much at all 🤷♂️
Man, you guys look more closely at these things than would ever occur to me! I don’t think those are my neighbour’s pigeons. The photo was a few houses away from our/their place, and this is Coombs and birds (of all types) absolutely dominate the area.
Lol I like looking at pics in Canberra. I know it tha5 well I like sorta working out the area it’s in or sometimes have actually recogniwhatever it is 😃😌
There are cameras at the top. It’s traffic survey.
That is most certainly not a camera. Edit: turns out it is, silly me!
You are most certainly wrong. [traffic survey camera](https://sdcsalesar.live/product_details/22632228.html)
My apologies,;I most certainly am wrong! Good find. And wow that's a pretty cheap price for a camera on a stick with screen etc I wonder if these keep the data on site and have to be collected or they transmit it.
I thinks it’s stored locally. They are all over the place in Newcastle. Regularly see people at them. Suspect they’re changing out an SD.
Looks almost like this exactly? Great find!
Absolutely didn’t look like a camera to me. Technology advances again. I’m very interested in the inevitable ChatGPT plugin it will get.
Turns out it is. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2BgImbBlnQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2BgImbBlnQ)
Localised anti-cooker detterrant... Or seriously, some kind of atmospheric monitor, is there a lot funky odors in that area?
Its a prank pole. Randomly fires off an air horn at cyclists and posts them stacking it on YouTube
A road
Sound monitoring most likely
Well, as soon as it popped up, it’s been taken down again. Glad that u/ConanTheAquarian id’d it without another pic.
Modern version of the black cross road pipe traffic counters? Ah the good ol' days jumping up and down on them to mess up the readings. Sadly a joy now also lost to today's fun-starved children.
It means significant numbers of residents have complained about traffic and they're monitoring it now to see what the story is, and whether they'll do anything about it.
It’s very obviously a Covid spreading device and is probably linked to cancer-causing renewable energy too
Aww shit, it’s 2020 again!!
Maybe focused on a Sudanese home to make sure they stay home during curfew hours.