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Re: [91attendees] box and antennas on traffic lights - is this WiFi?

Antonio Querubin <tony@lavanauts.org> Fri, 14 November 2014 05:29 UTC

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Subject: Re: [91attendees] box and antennas on traffic lights - is this WiFi?
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On Fri, 14 Nov 2014, Alexandre Petrescu wrote:

> Thanks for the hypothesis; anybody else any clue?
>
> (see attached pictures, and the place of the pictures is this:
> https://www.google.fr/maps/@21.2838575,-157.8318609,3a,75y,166.01h,89.87t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sajtwkScs-fCSHJvUtaOPbg!2e0 
> )
>
> I spotted same at other similar crossings in the vicinity.
>
> They are not present in the latest StreetView photos, so it must be new.
>
> Any hint appreciated.

I dimly recall someone from the city's IT shop telling me they use wifi
for providing connectivity to some of the traffic surveillance cams.
These were originally installed using a grant to support an APEC
conference a few years ago.  The quickest way to provide connectivity in
time for APEC was via wifi.  They're placed at various high-traffic
intersections and Waikiki has quite a few of them.  I think that first
image shows one of the cameras at the upper left corner.

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