Multiple Camera Gantries

[hwassall]

These things seem to be springing up all over the place in West London (well outside of the congestion zone), 5 or so white cameras with, I suspect IR lights, on a gantry over the road. Does anyone know what hey are? Are they ANPR cameras?

[Waugh-terfall]

I'm pretty sure they're speed traps, I've noticed some on Autoroutes and National Roads in France

[esselte]

Waugh-terfall said:

I'm pretty sure they're speed traps,

What sort?

[Rob_J]

Definitely not speed cameras, think I've seen them refered to a Spike. They are for monitoring vehicles travelling in & out of London, believe they are linked into some form of ANPR system.

http://www.ea-group.co.uk/security/commercial/spik...

Edited by Rob_J on Monday 20th August 13:24

[polskisklep]

i also noticed these and i think they are for next years pollution charge on lorries etc in london

[bluepolarbear]

hwassall said:

These things seem to be springing up all over the place in West London (well outside of the congestion zone), 5 or so white cameras with, I suspect IR lights, on a gantry over the road. Does anyone know what hey are? Are they ANPR cameras?

sounds like part of the so called "ring of steel" ANPR set-up around most major cities. Birmingham has one with all vehicle movements on all motorways at about 20miles out logged

[Peter Ward]

Rob_J said:

Definitely not speed cameras, think I've seen them refered to a Spike. They are for monitoring vehicles travelling in & out of London, believe they are linked into some form of ANPR system.

http://www.ea-group.co.uk/security/commercial/spik...

Edited by Rob_J on Monday 20th August 13:24

website said:

Spike can be integrated into a wide variety of systems via TCP/IP Ethernet with socket and FTP protocols, a relay output (for example to control a barrier), RS232, as well as true IP connectivity over GPRS / GSM. There is an option for wireless LAN connectivity, which can give huge savings in installation and cabling costs in many applications. Set-up and monitoring of the unit is by web-browser interface from a PC or PDA.

Imagine a gentle hack into the wireless LAN and adding the odd spurious packet and/or ftp file containing the details you'd like to provide. I just hope we're talking secure sockets and encrypted ftp.