One of the intersting facts that are mentioned in the AARTO - Administrative Adjudication of Road Traffic Offences act, is that in order for a traffic speed infringement via camera to be legal the camera has to be setup 100% according to the guidelines. One of the guidelines is that the pole on which the camera stands as well as the camera has to be perfectly aligned at a certain angle in order to ensure the photos sent are consistent and the speeds measured are also consistent.
One way to ensure this perfect alignment is to use a LoRaWAN device like the EM310-TILT sensor which will send an alert when the angle is changed from the initial setup and it varies within a certain number of degrees.
This will ensure then that any deviation in camera angles are noticed immediately and attended to.
The other place where this device could play a roll is to attach it to street lights and lamp posts in SA, as they are currently a massive target of thieves that steal the copper out of them. The thief will cut down the poll and steal the copper as well as any aluminium such as the light housing itself to sell as scrap metal for a few cents. this type of damage is causing havoc in South Africa and this could be a great deterrent when the thieves get caught redhanded when they start cutting down these poles.
The other use case I can imagine this device being used is in dam walls or the sides of mine dumps in order to see any type of slippage due to the angle of the sand being shifted. This type of monitoring could be used on tailings dam as yet one more sensor that can just give an early warning.
Written by johnkweber - Technical team lead at iotdc.co.za
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