What may appear to many as 'pole mounted stuff' I see as IoT Payment Gateways.

Take the headline image, an Alpha gatway "the PoE cable router in the sky". The gateway, proxy, router, all do the same thing. Route traffic to the Internet. In this case the Internet "is by the DOCSIS or HFC highway".

The Mojo WIFI access point on this pole mounted PWE (pole weather enclosure) is a WIFI Access point, a router, to the Internet. The PWE would most likely have 3 to 6 x 12 volt AGM batteries in it, a battery charger, its a pole mounted UPS with internet, or known as a DOCSIS, or HFC backhaul. (Hybrid Fibre Coax).

I look at these enclosures as a great place to mount IoT Sensors. After all, the MSO already has pole permits, empty space on the enclosure itself, put peel and stick IoT sensors, connect, and you have Internet of Things. All at street level, power, internet, sensors.

Here we have 2 enclosures, the brown enclosure from a Telco, the green one is from a Cable Internet provider called Rogers.

I look at these units as "payment terminals of the future". Connected cars with DSRC OBUs, Direct Short Range Communications, On board unit will communicate V2I, or Vehicle to Infrastructure. This green "box" may, in the future be "processing green" digital money.

In the future, the car is connected, its driving you, while its driving data back and forth, via the Internet of Things, while it pays for weather, road safety, parking space data.

Data is the new oil. Fuelling the connected car of the Future.