Utility pedestals are ubiquitous in the public right-of-way (row), and are used by most utilities (e.g. telecommunications, CATV, traffic lights, surveillance video, charging stations, etc). The majority of utility pedestals are unpowered, and are used to house connectorization of cabling.
Some pedestals are powered, either with an electrical drop to a local power company (together with the requisite power meter - see Figs 1, 3, 5), or from solar or wind power. Some powered pedestals only house hardened electronics, requiring no active heating or cooling. These pedestals are generally ventilated to the outside. Other pedestals are hermetically sealed and heated and cooled with (often redundant) HVAC systems.
