The Smart Energy Alliance also published "What Happens When A Car Hits a Pole?" solution brief at DistribuTech 2006 to demonstrate the future of deploying utility solutions that improve the integration of key emerging utility technologies by using an architecture roadmap focused on modularity and flexibility.
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This is a very serious issue, here in Australia just in the state of NSW, cars collide into poles roughly 11,000 times a year, sometime resulting in fatalities.
We have developed a low cost sensor that can be embedded into the poles and other fixed roadside assets that will communicate directly to smart meters, BPL, Wifi and cellular access points, alerting emergency services and energy officials within seconds.
James Eades
Telepathx