paul-s

Long road near mine that bends to the left at the end and goes under a bridge. Just before the bridge is a cctv camera on a pole (half the height of a lamp post) and next to it is a lens/some sort of small circular camera and below this attached is (i saw this at night by the way) an infra-red light, which was clearly red at night.

Is this tax/speeding, anything else ?

Scooby Soon!

At a guess this sounds like the thing that stops lorrys going under the bridge, should be a black sign up some where that will light up STOP when the large vehicle breaks the infra red beam

paul-s

hmmm although this is a big road and all lorries use it as it connects to the m25 at the dartford crossing. The bridge is big enough for anything to go under. They used to hide mobile tax cameras on the other side of the bridge which you couldnt see until you'd gone through already. Theres an arch for each direction of traffic as its a wide old road

paul-s

ah crap double post

Clarebabes

I saw on our local TV that Essex police were putting in ANPR cameras which tracked cars by their number plates around the county. Is it not one of those? Was the pole the new type of triangle mesh stuff?

paul-s

anyone else have any ideas ?

davegtt

1 near me too, its been there since about 1995 though??? looks like a little machine gun next to the camera although this is on the other side of the bridge (pass through the bridge before u see the camera facing you..... gone through it speeding too (opps should I have admitted to that??) in my younger days and nothing..... its also guarded by barbed wire etc etc... strange 1

Recaro

Does it look like any of these? clicky

As it has an infrared lamp, its likely to be either an ANPR or a cctv system.

Some places have an ANPR camera monitoring the number plates and a CCTV camera viewing the road.

davegtt

the 1 near me looks like the specs camera although I know it cant be because for a start there isnt another camera anywhere else in the area... its a stand alone 1.

paul-s

just checked the list and it looks like the specs one near the bottom. Altho the pic has two round things either side of the cctv, the one in my road has one. Im gonna check the other end of the road and see if theres another one working out average speed and stuff. The roads long and straight about a 0.75 mile long.

ill try and get a pic of it too

Recaro

sounds more like CCTV.

ANPR normally only uses 1 IR lamp. They might use 2 as back up, ie it may not be easy to change the bulbs so when 1 lamp blows the other can be used.
CCTV can have 2 IR lamps, 1 spot light and 1 flood light. Seems a bit weird though if all it does is monitor traffic.

It may be a traffic monitoring. Hard to tell without seeing it.

davegtt

Paul, exactly the same as the 1 in our town.... just the 1 mini machine gun to its side rather than the 2... like I say though theres defo no other camera anywhere near it....