Radio Antenna on street lights

True. Senior moment.

From where?

mogga scribbled...

You know the tories have been selling off frequencies to mobile companies some of which are buggering up everything close by?

eg

ID cards? Old technology. We'll all have compulsory RFID implants.

On Fri, 13 Dec 2013 08:24:55 -0000, Artic

SCADA systems are usually poorly protected.

In article , mogga writes

Dunno. Just says "centrally controlled"

I've tried and failed to find a link on Wirral Council's website. I do remember seeing one at the time and have contacted them to see if they can come up with it.

The trial wasn't entirely successful, I think, as a lot of the new control gear seemed to fail prematurely.

Ta chuck! Have a friend who reckons if they're centrally controlled then it'll need an ofcom licence...

Yes I noticed this. Maybe they can phone home to let them know the bulb blew?

Brian

How far are they sending a signal and how much does it cost?

The logical thing for a council to do is wait til people report a street light is out. If no one does then it's not needed.

Well, could someone explain what these look like? I did see some lamps with a couple of spiky things on the top, well a friend spotted them, and the guy who was fitting it told us they were to stop pigeons pooping on the photocells, which I find hard to believe myself. If they are they would need to have 10,000 volts on them and we wouldno doubt find the birds falling on our heads dead as we walked down the street, as these birds are incredibly stupid on one level, ie perching on dangerous things. Brian

Enough to make you paranoid..

section three is all blanked out! (remote monitoring and switching)

Er, that may have been a joke.

That should work.

You might not notice if you didn't suddenly have one outside your window.

No it does actually say it on one of the links - perhaps the Wirral one

Night inspection of lights controlled by the central management system would no longer be required, as faulty lights would be reported by the computer.

In message , mogga writes

They installed new lights along the main road in a nearby village, Driving through today I paid a bit more attention to them and noticed that whilst they had what I had assumed was a photocell type lump on top, there was an aerial type thing sticking out of the top of that as well

On Friday 13 December 2013 11:37 mogga wrote in uk.d-i-y:

(Brian's blind BTW)

It looks like a little ( 10cm ) WIFI antenna - short, stubby and plastic looking, sticking up vertically from the very top of the lamp casing.

On Friday 13 December 2013 09:35 Huge wrote in uk.d-i-y:

And if "they" cannot apply solid network security to pumping stations and the like, I very much doubt if anyone has bothered much about some street lamps!

One of the reasons I do not want a smartmeter for electricity...

Maybe it's just to control the timer?