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You Know About Flock Cameras, Meet Nema Nodes: They Turn Streetlights Into A Surveillance Network
(www.gadgetreview.com)
this post was submitted on 15 Jul 2026
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no. by north I mean north. the direction in which sunlight most quickly dissipates in the northern hemisphere. this allows streetlights to turn on mid-dusk instead of pure darkness
if I meant up I would say up. I've handled, repaired, and inspected thousands of these devices and am very familiar with their function. none of them contain cameras or other surveillance hardware. the day I see otherwise is the day I share that information as broadly as possible, and also the day I start sabotaging.
I'm saying that this is not a real threat to personal privacy.
Oh I see. Are they rotated? I assumed there was a socket on top that the bulb I can see from the ground plugs into.
yes they are rotated to point them north. that's a procedural step of installing them
of course there's a socket. it contains a line (energized) terminal, a neutral terminal, and a control terminal.
what's your point?
The article is about the sockets. You said the only opening in the housing points north, so you can see why I thought you were talking about the lamp housing and not the photocell housing.
that makes no sense. this is about the nema socket
the lamp is not plugged into the nema socket. the article specifically says that the photocell is what's connected to the nema socket