Well, obviously it's a mesh as it's JUST the antenna and the panel. There are a number of reasons that come to mind that they would use the solar panels on a pole that has power (mostly having to do with inter-departmental politics and relations with PG&E) but the best reason I can think of to do that is for emergency services. Or alternately, non-city "services".<div>
<br></div><div>Another thing that this reminds me of is the truck signalling on the highways. (It's a national consortium for weigh stations, mostly.) It'd be a stretch to see how they might want to expand it into the cities. However, it looks like it's a 90 deg. polarization from those. It looks like the FasTrak antennas are similarly polarized.</div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 10:54 AM, Dr. Jesus <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:j@hug.gs">j@hug.gs</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 10:41 AM, Jonathan Lassoff <<a href="mailto:jof@thejof.com">jof@thejof.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 2:12 AM, Dr. Jesus <<a href="mailto:j@hug.gs">j@hug.gs</a>> wrote:<br>
>> Looks like a ShotSpotter. I can't think of anything else that would<br>
>> involve bolting a solar panel to a city-owned pole that already has AC<br>
>> service. The board of supervisors has wanted to expand the existing<br>
>> GDS network into the Mission since at least 2008. I guess they<br>
>> finally found the cash to do it:<br>
><br>
> I'm not certain about it being a ShotSpotter or not. There's on at<br>
> 16th and Mission that looks totally different.<br>
><br>
> Most of the other ones I've been seeing around the neighborhood look<br>
> like this: <a href="http://flickr.com/gp/thejof/f08M91" target="_blank">http://flickr.com/gp/thejof/f08M91</a><br>
<br>
</div>Huh, I'm not sure what that is. Maybe it's part of the wifi mesh for<br>
the section 8 housing, but I don't know why they would use a solar<br>
panel instead of the power in the pole, and I don't see a battery. I<br>
might be able to look up the pole number if it's on a NCJPA owned<br>
pole. I'll have a look when I'm there before the meeting.<br>
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