A Mysterious Box Attached to a Stoplight

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A few days ago, while walking to work, I noticed something out of the corner of my eye. I was at Wabash and Washington, and something just seemed… a little off.

At first, I thougt there was some kind of box attached to the stoplight. But on looking closer, I realized it was a little more involved than that.

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It was actually a separate pole!

There was some kind of wire at the end, and I’m assuming it was either picking up or sending info somehow.

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At the top of the (locked) box, there was a note saying that this belonged to Gewalt Hamilton Associates, and was some kind of traffic data collection device. Note quite as eye-pleasing as an Array of Things node, but whatever gets the job done, I guess.

If you’re curious to know more about what GHA is doing, check out their Data Collection services and a summary of their project in Wichita.

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