Black plastic box strapped to a stop sign, wrapped with a bike chain, pointed at a four way intersection

[u/Sp1cyMerm41d]

Sorry I couldn’t get more photos, was in a rush! Can post more if requested later today! Not sure what this is, but the little tube sticking out on the left looked like it had a lens on the end. It’s pointing at a four way stop sign outside my apartment complex. Is it a camera? Looks super jank. Stressed out about any cameras with all the flock stuff happening recently. For extra context, this shares a street with turning point USA

[u/ew435890]

Possibly a traffic counter. City and State government agencies keep track of traffic densities so they know where they need to focus road repairs.

[u/tsdguy → u/ew435890]

Definitely. It’s been stored at the location pending deployment.

[u/Dennaldo → u/tsdguy]

It is deployed. It’s likely a radar recorder and it can record through the storage box.

Looking a little close there might be a camera. Either way, deployed.

[u/kaehvogel → u/Dennaldo]

Way too high to properly function as a radar detector. It's a camera.

[u/CapitalJuggernaut607]

Looks like a traffic study camera. The city or an engineering firm straps those to poles temporarily to count cars and patterns.

[u/Illustrious-Bat-5252 → u/CapitalJuggernaut607]

No cameras there. Just a box with no holes. It often uses either low-power radar (such as K-band radar), or ground-mounted sensors.

[u/jujubanzen → u/Illustrious-Bat-5252]

There's literally a cylinder sticking out of it pointing at the intersection.

[u/Illustrious-Bat-5252 → u/jujubanzen]

That's the radar antenna that sniffs out traffic volumes.

[u/Dennaldo → u/Illustrious-Bat-5252]

What’s the thing on the middle left of it sticking out then?

[u/Sanitizer2294]

That's called a "Black Cat" traffic data recorder.

[u/Swiggy1957 → u/Sanitizer2294]

[u/mordac_the_preventer → u/Swiggy1957]



That’s just a Peli Case. My guess your pic is of a Peli iM2050 Storm case. The one in OP’s pic might be a different brand.
It doesn’t tell you anything about what’s inside it, it’s just a rugged case to protect what’s inside.

[u/BuyTimely3319]

It's a temporary traffic counter. It's being held up by a velcro strap.

[u/Grilled-Watermelon]

Looks answered. I’ve done something similar with a radio repeater so I can listen to my boys at the park while I was working at home.

[u/mrcrashoverride]

As a side note Mapquest just added a layer that shows all the reported Flock Cameras and other similar

[u/GitEmSteveDave]

https://www.reddit.com/r/WITT_FAT/comments/8evns7/traffic_monitoring_system/

[u/Gerry1of1]

It could be a number of tings. Possible a trap to count fruit fly or mosquito numbers. Or tracking some invasive species. That's my best guess.

[u/BuyTimely3319 → u/[deleted]]

No, that's a traffic counter.

[u/NotaContributi0n]

Probably Chinese, or a random sleuth