Strange boxes

Would any of you know what these boxes are? They are atop street signs. The cities mounted them.

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>being this bluepilled
Clearly they are ritual conductors for our lizard overlords

At first I thought it might be one of those shot spotters. Where do you live?

Could be for emergency services to make light green some cities have it flip switch in firetruck light turns green

stingrays, they hijack cell signals and let gov dl everything from your phone, and listen to calls live.

Cincinnati Oh.

I can't imagine why it apparently has an antenna. What could it be recieving/transmitting?

It's weird, because one is a "dead end" sign, the other is a "stop" sign. Both at odd places around the neighborhood.

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(((Tracking devices)))

The ones near me don't look like that, but they're popping up everywhere. Sometimes they've even put up new specialized poles for them, and you can't even really see how they're wired or where they go.

It's obvious whatever the case that they dress them up to blend in to the scenery, meaning it's clearly something nefarious. They even have these things now that look like giant oil filters hanging outside main doorways where you'd almost thing it were a floodlight of some sort.

Who is getting paid to design these things and have them installed?

Not sure user - but I'd guess some machine to machine router/ap - or a municipal radio repeater. The omni-directional antenna means it's probably not wifi (modern aps have multiple phased antennas) and the length means it's longer wavelength - since 2.4ghz is only 4inches long.... So 433mhz 1/2wave is like 12inches about in line with OPs pic. If that's the case, probably a LoRaWAN/Zigbee/etc link (lots in Chicago) or again a police/municipal radio repeater.
The bottom part of the enclosure is probably to hold 2 small SLA batteries stacked atop one another.
I built a large wireless network a few years back and put all kinds of strange boxes on poles/rooftops. So I'm always looking at these things wondering - glad other people do the same.

if you live in a high crime area, they are listeners for gunshots. my city will be installing them in our ghetto in a month or 2.

it's some sooper1337 haxors "darkweb" meshnet

good post.

Probably 400/800 mhz something for city use. Some of the power monitoring and control stuff uses that kind of stuff. Agreed on not being 2.4 or 5Ghz.

They probably just alert some agency if the sign goes down. They aren't really big enough to do any large scale tracking like suggests.

>shotspotter
Nah, shotspotter uses a phased microphone array. Lots of little things poking out or a omnidirectional radome looking cover hiding it all.
OP should buy a cheap SDR dongle+'gnu radio' and do a capture if he's really curious.

Word has it that something called 5G network is coming soon, and with space to build towers at a premium, expect to see relay boxes like the ones in your photo popping up in the weirdest of places.

Spoof telephone masts, used to skim cell data from phones directly to the agency that owns them.

Trust me, London is absolutely saturated with them.

You know what they've had here for years are these little strange protrusions they U-bolt on to street lights everywhere, and then they run the wires so it looks like it's just got a power connection. A power connection for what? What the hell is it doing then? It's not turning the light on and off because that's what the tiny little inbuilt sensor at the top is for.

Best answer I've gotten so far is they're tracking shipments from the trucking industry. Well I guess it must be UPS trucks or something because they're all over residential areas.

OP here, I know they are city connected somewhat. One went missing and a cop asked the homeowner nearest where it was, said a GPS signal indicated it was at their residence.

Wifi repeater for company like Comcast's free wifi service?

You don't pick up sound with an antenna

I see them even around college campuses where they already have 10 different kinds of disguised antennae around for god knows what. The campus wifi is obvious because they use ethernet cables that are labeled for the router closets. The cell phone ones are obvious because you can look at what they have printed on the thick coax cables.

What the fuck all the new things are is beyond me but somebody is paying out the nose for them.

The Xfinity repeaters are from private users not knowing they are a hotspot for anyone and everyone.

t. Technitium/Hotspot user getting free wifi from his next door neighbor.

Ok, so we know it wants to link what it's receiving/transmiting with the location

Those repeaters are pretty dank though. Get a few user:pass combos and you can leech free interbutts without causing anybody obvious trouble.

I'm not one to talk up telecom cartels, but that was a good move.

Sonar.
They place them throughout the city to triangulate the location of gunfire.

I heard about them planning to do this, I see it's finally happening

>not knowing anything about tracking cell phones

Pull it down with a rope then open it up

This is how gangstalkers communicate
t. CIA

It's so obvious though. If you were a real threat to the state, maybe you'd just organize and take out a bunch of them with supersonic rounds at a distance as a distraction from where you wanted to do your dastardly deeds.

You could even set at least one on fire to distract the fire department. Who do they think they are catching? The 100+ nigger gun crimes that happen on any given weekend in bombed out shitholes?

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NSA already collects cell info through towers, what they don't have is precise location of cell signals. That could be what these are for.

I'm not complaining. Right now I'm sitting on a MAC address Xfinity recognizes as a subscriber and I haven't had to rotate MACs for over a week for the "complementary" passes.

I leave mine enabled in case anybody wants some underused tubes. Hasn't caused me any bandwidth issues so far.

Your car has an RFID chip placed in it. When you travel through the "strange box", your car's location is pinged allowing it to be tracked discreetly.
Isn't technology lovely?

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It's odd that the same exact model would be showing up at different locations. I'd put money on Google doing more data collection.

Looks like some sort of access point

brain control waves
jews use them to control your children

>stuff on poles
This is almost certainly a radar sensor for measuring traffic flow. The induction loops in the road are really limited in terms of data and require a lot of upkeep. Ultrasonics and other things suck ass - so radar is used to track frequency and speed of traffic. Some $$ cities have fiber connecting some intersections with cameras/machine vision and shit but it's really really expensive.

My city was a test case for an interstate camera system that blew through $30million. Most cities just do limited traffic surveys with nothing more than a tube with an air sensor on the other side and some gopros mounted to a pole that they then pickup a few days later and have an intern manually count cars. Met with traffic folks and pitched my sub-ghz network and asked them about all the stuff they had already on poles/intersections.

>tracking shipments from trucking industry
RFID reading through a moving tractor trailer just isn't happening. Worked in this field too with a BigCorp $$$$ budget doing wireless sensor stuff - radios attached to pallets, high value items, etc. Spotty as hell on 3G - much less trying to scan RFIDs at 60mph. Some of the finance firms do use realtime satellite to track shit though.

Uber has taken to using Uber-branded fleet vehicles near me. Once they go unmanned, I'm going to have a field day jumping out in front of them so they have to come to a screeching halt and then knocking those spiny things on top off with a bat.

It's going to be a fun timeline. It'll back up traffic for ages.

From what I understand, the hotspots get throttled if the primary user is doing something that consumes the bandwidth. You get priority and any leecher like me gets slowed.

it's on a stop sign, get closer and look for logo or serial number. Take a proper side profile of it, too.

police/medic radio relay box
like a big wifi extender or a RF cell phone tower
it picks up the walkie talkie signal and amplifies it so it can reach base clearer

installed 40 of these in seattle last summer

Yup, traffic shaping. Seems to work pretty decent. Although I've noticed it's not just comcast that has started to shit on UDP traffic.

>dat deep packet inspection

Lastly and to no-one in particular, stuff on telephone poles is going to get ever crowded. In addition to all the m2m/IoT shit - 'edge computing' is the next hot thing. Basically moving the processing for image/voice/lidar/radar/etc machine learning is moved closer to the object needing it - reducing latency. Nokia and 'self driving car' folks are pushing this - since current (((cellular))) providers have refused or can't build a data network needed to off-board a lot of machine learning computation.

also wow the other Ideas in this thread

Oh my god. My locality finally started this big state road widening project that was long overdue. So much better now.

But every third street lamp has one of those tubes on it. Literally, every third one. Gayfags, the lot of them.

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Telecom user here

Those are basically internet routers for emergency services for police to use on their laptops. Nothing fishy about it

gunfire triangulaters? I know they exist.

>your car has an RFID chip placed in it
They are in your tires already - but not many (if any) in modern vehicles.
This is pretty easy to test with a RFID antenna breakout - but really fucking hard to read from a moving car.

Well yea, they're not worried about a real intelligent invasion.
When I lived in Phoenix AZ, it was a big deal, they've got a whole lot of crazy experimental police stuff to track cartel members.
But also I hadn't seen He makes a good point and i might be wrong.
Maybe the police are prepping for when netneutrality ends so that they can retain communication without paying (((them))).
Or maybe they are intended to middle-man the cell towers so that can warrantlessly track meta-data again without appealing to the network provider.

Imsi catchers.

>nothing to see here folks
I think you mean easy targets.

I'm in on a whole bunch of IoT crap. The people doing this are so unbelievably retarded. So much you start to think there really might be a secret room of conniving Jews tricking the goyim in to self destruction.

You should look up some road nerd forum and ask them. There's a niche of sorts of people watching various road furniture and are knowledgeable about both common and rare brands and makes as well as new stuff like this. Come back to Sup Forums to tell what you find. Have fun!

Lmao okay get paranoid if you want. If you really worked with IoT shit you would know what this is.

OP probably lives in a decently well funded city so that's why they hve money to blow on these. In my city the boxes look a bit different and are called "motomesh" from my wifi network selection

IMSI catchers

>REEEEEE! UR WRONG! THEY'RE TRANSMITTERS FOR THE NEW WORLD ORDER TO BEAM SIGNALS DIRECTLY INTO MY HEAD! YOU'RE JUST A NWO SHILL MEANT TO DISTRACT US! REEEEEEEEEEE!

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It's obviously city funding. I used to walk by the local building for UN takeover "neighborhood cooperation."

It's not paranoia. It's just complete disgust that allegedly smart people endlessly fall for jewish lies. And yes transhumanism is a jewish lie. Had somebody try to capture me for a startup using portable EEG machines for what he thought was to help higher states of awareness. lol no you dummy. You're not getting VC for that purpose.

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correct

.22lr reactive targets.

Shoot one with a .22, and the police react...

Did any of you guys think of just opening up wireshark around one of those things?

There is a mobile version of Wireshark, I am sure.

>REEEEE! IT'S A GIGANTIC CONSPIRACY MEANT TO CONTROL THE MASSES! THIS UNSOURCED DRAWING PROVES IT! REEEEEEEE!
Your conspiracy theories are insane. And this is coming from a guy who believes the holocaust is a hoax.

>steal one
>take it apart
>film it
>sell any cooper for profit

You must be from Detroit.

Intriguing, but I don't want my rectum wrecked in a federal rape me in the ass prison.

That is not a stingray

Wireshark is for network you are connected to.

They were in the movie They Live . Broadcasting the ' sleep ' signal.

Routers? You mean hop points, right?

There's no way these are routers... they'd never be left out in the open like that if people could physically access them so easily.

I said routers so normies would understand. They're part of a mesh network

>conspiracy
sup shill

You are a joke . That is why your flag is an inverse medipack. You are dangerous to humans. Fuck off

ok shill

Youre talking about the opticom. Opticom looks very different than OPs pic.

Best one so far

>french
>drawn
>no source for claim
riiiiiiiight

you must be getting pussy left and right

>pussy fuckers
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Pick one

One went missing and a cop asked the homeowner nearest where it was, said a GPS signal indicated it was at their residence.
why would he keep it?, talking it down And destroy it is understandable, but why keep it

it looks like something you'd use to tap into phone calls

When the trannies go in for their surgery, they install cyborg implants also, to control their moods. It's probably to do with that.

Ah .. I see you are a man of virginity as well

city wide WAN for traffic cameras

morons

embarrassing

Yes, they really are embarrassing aren't they?

"Better go buy some tin foil because the brainwave scanners are being installed by the reptoids!"

You realize police in America and UK widely use IMSI catchers in cities?

I live in a small town of about 50,000 residents. We have those and have been told it's free Wi-Fi. Couldn't imagine it being federal or even state surveillance of us. There's not much going on around here other than crop farming.

>You realize police in America and UK widely use IMSI catchers in cities?
You realize not everything is a crazy conspiracy theory, right?

Multiple user's have already given a reasonable explanation as to what those things are.

They're not devices meant to steal your hentai you've downloaded on your phone or beam signals into your brain.

I don't get it. Why Are they shaped like an L? Seems unnecessary.

neat, almost all of our telephone boxes have wifi now.

>crop farming

good...

It's not really a "crazy conspiracy theory" when it's literally true though, how are you this bluepilled?

What part of Cincy? I've never seen these.

Korok seeds

>It's not really a "crazy conspiracy theory" when it's literally true though,
"These things are meant to steal your brainwaves even though they're quite clearly not!"