This is just an educated guess, but since there doesn’t appear to be a meter attached to it, I’m going to guess it belongs to the electric utility and is part of their AMI (Advanced Metering Infrastructure) network.
There’s a device at the substation that can read all the meters fed from the sub. Some utilities use AMI over power lines, some use a wireless mesh network, and some use a combination of different technologies depending on a few things.
Source: used to run the department that handled the AMI system.
I’ll second this as someone who used to administer an AMI headend. This is essentially an industrial wifi access point. This device connects to the utility’s operations network, and provides connectivity to smart meters in the area.
Based on the shape, at first I it thought was one of the new mesh network streetlights, but after zooming in more I think you’re right, it looks like an antenna box for a wireless metering network.
This is just an educated guess, but since there doesn’t appear to be a meter attached to it, I’m going to guess it belongs to the electric utility and is part of their AMI (Advanced Metering Infrastructure) network.
There’s a device at the substation that can read all the meters fed from the sub. Some utilities use AMI over power lines, some use a wireless mesh network, and some use a combination of different technologies depending on a few things.
Source: used to run the department that handled the AMI system.
I’ll second this as someone who used to administer an AMI headend. This is essentially an industrial wifi access point. This device connects to the utility’s operations network, and provides connectivity to smart meters in the area.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_meter_reading
Based on the shape, at first I it thought was one of the new mesh network streetlights, but after zooming in more I think you’re right, it looks like an antenna box for a wireless metering network.