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The [MG] Squared camera lowering device has unquestionably become an integral part of any ITS Deployment. If you are involved in the maintenance or design of camera sites, this is one concept you must consider. Incorporating a camera lowering device, maintenance can be performed on the ground by one technician without the need for bucket trucks, associated cone crews and lane closures.  This ease of maintenance equates to less system downtime, cost savings and a more efficient system.  Design engineers can now be freed from the previous limitations on both mounting height and location when designing an ITS surveillance system that will incorporate a camera lowering device. Pole locations are no longer determined by ‘where’ or ‘how high’ the bucket truck can go. Limitations posed by other solutions, such as hinged poles, are also eliminated.  If the best location for the pole is on an embankment, down a slope, on top of a parking deck or on a median barrier, placement can be successfully achieved without the concern of how the bucket truck will access the camera or lack of right of way for a hinged pole.

Independent studies and reports have shown an estimated 80% to 92% cost savings per year in CCTV maintenance cost when incorporating a lowering system.  In 2003 the Florida Department of Transportation ITS Office commissioned a White Paper to disseminate detailed application, design criteria, installation, and cost information regarding video surveillance systems and, specifically, to address questions regarding camera mounting heights, locations, and maintenance, and how these issues impact the life cycle costs of a closed-circuit television (CCTV) site.  In regards to the implementation of a lowering device, the study concluded that the annual maintenance cost per site was reduced 86.2% versus those sites without a lowering device. A link to the Florida White Paper may be found here. 

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