What’s this white box ?

GrahameCase · Post by **GrahameCase** » Mon Oct 09, 2017 18:56

An interesting item has caught my eye lately on the A899 in West Lothian - it’s attached to a lamppost prior to a junction and powered by a 16 amp socket - is it some kind of presence sensor for the junction?

Looks like it’s been in situ a while

google Street View

sotonsteve · Post by **sotonsteve** » Mon Oct 09, 2017 20:40

Could be a small air quality monitoring station.

Lockwood · Post by **Lockwood** » Tue Oct 10, 2017 14:03

It's a DATUM PLATE!

Oops. Wrong forum.

michael769 · Post by **michael769** » Tue Oct 10, 2017 22:06

It is indeed an air quality monitor.

Dougman · Post by **Dougman** » Wed Oct 11, 2017 09:34

Lockwood wrote:It's a DATUM PLATE!

Oops. Wrong forum.

Haha, that was my first thought too

GrahameCase · Post by **GrahameCase** » Thu Oct 12, 2017 22:51

Thanks for the answers,

It must be there to monitor the pollution as a result of the large quantity of HGVs moving in and out of the industrial estate there.

michael769 · Post by **michael769** » Sat Oct 14, 2017 00:11

Broxburn is an Air Quality Management Area due to high levels of pollution.

There's a much larger monitoring station in the town centre

nodnirG kraM · Post by **nodnirG kraM** » Thu Oct 19, 2017 21:53

This one has been a permanent installation for about fifteen years in Horsham, Sussex:

https://goo.gl/maps/y2wk1Wr78vB2

michael769 · Post by **michael769** » Thu Oct 19, 2017 23:29

All councils have at least one - often more.

Reading · Post by **Reading** » Fri Oct 20, 2017 16:55

nodnirG kraM wrote:This one has been a permanent installation for about fifteen years in Horsham, Sussex:

https://goo.gl/maps/y2wk1Wr78vB2

I nearly crashed my bike by that one - a very cold set of fingers slipped off as i let out clutch under RSA and I managed to simultaneously wheely and spin the back tyre. Really badly wrenched my shoulder on return to earth. Luckily I was only 2 miles form destination. I would have thought somewhere near the Library/Old Tandbridge site would have been a better place for one in Horsham though especially as more buses around that area

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