Yesterday, my commute home took 100% more time than it took a mere few weeks ago. Was this an anomaly? I wish. Recently, Highway 1, 50% of the access from my home to the rest of the Bay Area was shutdown indefinitely due to storm damage.

An interesting side effect of this is a remote sensor project that has been in place for sometime that alerts CalTrans when the slide begins to move. Now with the closure, CalTrans is extending the sensor network (picture below.)

These sensors are installed in holes drilled 150 feet below the roadway. Sensors are indeed everywhere and their use is ever increasing. From a Network Services perspective, that’s a good thing because the more access to telemetry we have of various flavors, the more value we’ll be able to add to users of our services. I haven’t yet worked out how slide sensors play into our plans however……