This, it’s like a metal detector but, bigger. Temporary boom gates might use infrared motion sensors like automatic lights.
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atlasraven31@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Same as traffic lights. “Inductive-loop traffic detectors use an electrically conducting loop embedded in the pavement to send a signal to the traffic control system to indicate the presence of a vehicle.”
Narc082@aussie.zone 7 months ago
TWeaK@lemm.ee 7 months ago
It’s bigger in overall structure size, but isn’t really that big itself. It’s just a wire loop, they can be installed into existing roads with minimal effort - they just dig a narrow trench and then seal it up, it doesn’t require more tarmac.
tired_lemming@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Huh, so that’s a completely new concept I’ve learned today. Time to do more reading. Thanks!
Tomahtoes@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Check the road in front of the gate. Those loops are usually installed after the asphalt so there should be a loop patched up with tar a bit smaller than a footprint of an average car.
otter@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
So a large wooden horse could slip by without detection
astraeus@programming.dev 7 months ago
If the large wooden horse is full of men in metal armor, purely hypothetically speaking, would the loop still not pick up the large wooden horse?
wkk@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Technically speaking it would pick up the men in metal armors, not the wooden horse per se.
But the barrier would lift for the wooden horse full of men in armor indeed.
_haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Depends on how high on their horse they are: They might be too far away to trigger the sensor.
AmidFuror@kbin.social 7 months ago
How about a wooden badger?
UncleBadTouch@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
How about a Canadian beaver? They basically are wood
atlasraven31@lemm.ee 7 months ago
An aftican badger or a european?
AmidFuror@kbin.social 7 months ago
Huh? I don't know that... ahh!
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Badger my ass it’s probably milhouse