Smart streetlights hide hockey-puck NEMA nodes that can add cameras, air sensors, and 5G gear with no public vote or new hardware.

Standardized NEMA sockets let municipalities add cameras and air sensors to existing poles with no public vote or new hardware

    • frongt@lemmy.zipEnglish
      13·
      18 days ago

      By north you mean up, I assume.

      And while that doesn’t mean they can’t install a camera, it does mean it would be the worst possible orientation. It would have to be a big ball on top or an assembly that came down underneath the lamp to point the camera at the ground.

      You could also plug in a non-camera sensor, like a Stingray cell phone snooper. Those are omnidirectional.

      But the bottom line is “you can plug stuff into power outlets”, which is not really a story.

        • frongt@lemmy.zipEnglish
          11·
          18 days ago

          Oh I see. Are they rotated? I assumed there was a socket on top that the bulb I can see from the ground plugs into.

            • frongt@lemmy.zipEnglish
              11·
              18 days ago

              The article is about the sockets. You said the only opening in the housing points north, so you can see why I thought you were talking about the lamp housing and not the photocell housing.