They started installing poles along a main road near where we live and I’m not sure what the white antennas on them are for. Some of the poles have traffic cameras like the one in the picture but others don’t. They are spaced every half to one mile and have antennas on opposite sides, with what looks like a radio cabinet near the base. The antennas are all aligned along the road, pointing parallel to traffic. This is in southwest Pennsylvania.

    • ShepherdPie@midwest.socialEnglish
      423·
      2 months ago

      As for what it’s for, it could be anything.

      I’m pretty sure that’s what Bill Gates will be using to activate the 5G nanobots that we all received in the COVID vaccine.

      • HamartiogonicEnglish
        8·
        2 months ago

        We were all supposed to die by late 2020. What’s taking so long?

          • HamartiogonicEnglish
            2·
            2 months ago

            Aah, the classic Soon™. The gaming industry has taught you well.

          • HamartiogonicEnglish
            2·
            2 months ago

            They said that people would start dying like flies in no time. Why do I care? You see, currently houses and cars are so expensive, because there are many people who also want to buy those things. If the population was cut to a fraction, as was promised, the prices would crash accordingly due to massive oversupply of everything. I’m still waiting for the day when I can buy a house with 1000 €.

    • WxFisch@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      10·
      2 months ago

      That indeed looks like exactly what they are, which I should have known since I have a bunch of UniFi gear at home. I wonder what PennDOT is using them for.

    • borari@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      4·
      2 months ago

      Those airfibers are massive fucking overkill for a single camera. I’ve aligned pairs of these that feed entire like 10-25 unit MDUs.

      • jake_jake_jake_@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        2 months ago

        if they are chaining them bandwidth will add up, and depending on the switching equipment they could be doing a large ring of some sort. it would be pretty easy to calculate since cameras are a pretty even throughput.

        Looks like a air fiber 24 which is only 1.5Gbps throughput, 8-24mbps per camera would mean between 60-200 cameras, which for a state transportation department wouldn’t be unreasonable, especially they are using these for something else, like interconnects between buildings for a metro-lan scenario.