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By Jonathan Fairfield

 

Hua Hin Municipality has revealed plans to install multifunctional smart lamp posts throughout the city.

 

The smart lamp posts, also known as ‘smart poles’, are part of a major technology drive in accordance with the municipality’s Smart City initiative.

 

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The lamp posts are equipped with a variety of sensors and CCTV cameras and will be connected to data networks and 5G.

 

They can also be used to collect air quality, traffic flow and weather data.

 

Full story: https://www.huahintoday.com/local-news/hua-hin-to-install-smart-lamp-posts-in-new-tech-drive/

 

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Could that be Venus in the background?

 

The problem with "smart" anything in LoS is that it pretty soon becomes "dumb" due to poor installation followed by lack of maintenance / repair ???? 

 

Anyone remember the "smart taxi stops" (scrapped in 2019 without ever going fully live)? 

 

 

 

 

Polititians love big projects. By the time the top is skimmed of, no money left for maintanance. Never changes; that's the way it's always been done.

Take our irrigation klongs. Weeds grow and resist the flow of water, but we can't clean out the weeds as then there will be no weeds and no money allocated to clean out the weeds. "Is Major Major in?"

Do they come with crash barriers at the base .................LOL

3 hours ago, webfact said:

Hua Hin Municipality has revealed plans to install multifunctional smart lamp posts throughout the city.

Made of rubber by any chance?

2 hours ago, jobsworth said:

Could that be Venus in the background?

 

It could be, depending on when the picture was taken.

... agreed, 'smart' lamp posts would make lotsa sense if they're smart enough to, well, sort of step aside as soon as your next best driver is about to wrap themselves around them ... now, bring that one on, 555 ...

 

Smart post's ......they get out of the way when they

see an out of control truck speeding  towards them.

 

regards worgeordie

No mention of cost, they look very Expensive with all that tech, so a good commission rate for some, and still have to be hard wired for EV charging.

Can we request they install smart traffic lights instead of the one's on timers designed in the early 1900's or even worse monkey in a box design from the 1800's? 

Thailand's obsession with "being smart" has now reached lamp posts.

4 minutes ago, Venom said:

Can we request they install smart traffic lights instead of the one's on timers designed in the early 1900's or even worse monkey in a box design from the 1800's? 

 

It's been tried at least twice, the BiB decided they could do a better job of creating jams and disabled it within a few days.

 

Well at least there won't be any police stops along those streets with cctv and all. Hard to collect fines when the cameras are watching. 

1 hour ago, Venom said:

Can we request they install smart traffic lights

Even better, they could synchronise traffic lights so that traffic can flow freely through consecutive junctions.

 

I've also never understood why Bangkok traffic lights have such ridiculously long delays.

A  smart lamp post is one that will  jump  out of the way  when  a Thai driver gets too close to it

5 minutes ago, actonion said:

A  smart lamp post is one that will  jump  out of the way  when  a Thai driver gets too close to it

As opposed to the current "dumb" lamp posts which have a habit of jumping out in front of cars and motorcycles - particularly if they detect the driver/rider is drunk.

I think the  the cresent is too small to be the moon, and the outer planet Uranus 

is too far away.  Good quality photo. Could be wrong though.

5 hours ago, Geoffggi said:

Do they come with crash barriers at the base .................LOL

Maybe they're smart enough to move out of the way when a driver "microsleeps" and heads directly for it.

There was silly mw thing "smart" meant the poles could jump out of the way of drunk drivers

7 hours ago, Crossy said:

Anyone remember the "smart taxi stops" (scrapped in 2019 without ever going fully live)? 

 

Anecdote.

 

Back in the 1990’s we were working in Ankara, Turkey. At the time hailing a cab wasn’t permitted, you had to call.

 

Anyway, one lunchtime we were sitting outside a nice little cafe with a coffee when a couple of locals wandered up with a reel of cable and a bell push. They proceded to screw the bell push to a tree and string the cable from assorted branches. Odd we thought.

 

Some time later we were outside another lunch cafe when a lady with shopping came along, located a similar bell push (on a light pole this time) and pushed it. A few seconds later a taxi screeched round the corner and picked her up.

 

The 1990s Turkish version of Uber.

They coming with concrete barriers around them & of course underground power supply.

Maybe real smart with solar power. 

1 hour ago, Crossy said:

They proceded to screw the bell push to a tree and string the cable from assorted branches.

Had some of those in Samut Prakan on a Soi, I was staying in for M/C taxis 15+ years ago.

5 hours ago, Crossy said:

 

It's been tried at least twice, the BiB decided they could do a better job of creating jams and disabled it within a few days.

 

Yep, the Japanese designed a Bangkok traffic lights  system, but never really tried, if I remember.

Some mob also did calculations about Bankok's pollution and recommended that the pollution due to traffic could be greatly reduced by installing all the bus and truck exausts vertically upwards. Never tried.

10 minutes ago, carlyai said:

Yep, the Japanese designed a Bangkok traffic lights  system, but never really tried, if I remember.

Some mob also did calculations about Bankok's pollution and recommended that the pollution due to traffic could be greatly reduced by installing all the bus and truck exausts vertically upwards. Never tried.

 

Peek Traffic (a UK company) actually installed a system in 1994.

 

https://www.academia.edu/11604715/ASSESSMENT_OF_AREA_TRAFFIC_CONTROL_SYSTEM_IN_BANGKOK_BY_THE_MICROSCOPIC_SIMULATION_MODEL

 

15 hours ago, jobsworth said:

Could that be Venus in the background?

 

I doubt it.

 

Venus is never that clear from where I live and I have zero light pollution.

 

Difficult to tell it from a star with the naked eye.

Looks more like the moon.

???? but using some spare baht to clear walk pats for grass, sand and garbage is not high-tech enough ????

Felt