I saw a pylon
You saw one of ours.
It does not know who you are. It followed a shape across the intersection and gave that shape a number. The number is retired when you leave and never given to anything else.
Fig 01
- Tube. Sealed and bolted to the pole. The counting happens in here, not somewhere else.
- Radio. It sends out. Nobody can log in to it or ask it about you.
- Sensors. A camera and others, looking down at one piece of road.
- Lamp. It is a street light first.
- Pole. An ordinary light pole.
A street light that also measures traffic. It counts what moves through the intersection and how fast. The city can use that to adjust the traffic lights and check that work it paid for actually happened.
Yes, there is a camera in it. We keep the pictures for far less time than the counts.
No plate reader
Nothing in it turns a plate into a name.
No face recognition
Nothing in it was ever built to recognize a face.
No history
Nobody can ask it where your car has been.
The ID printed on the pylon tells you who owns this road and who approved the pylon standing on it.
Nothing is installed on a public road yet.
When the first pylon goes in, you can look its ID up here. If you are looking at a box on a pole today, it is not ours: tell us what you saw.
They can buy footage of a place and a time. We publish every request, whether we grant it or refuse it. They cannot ask where you went, because nothing here can answer that.