If the speculation is correct, these mysterious antennas could be hotspots connecting to a wireless blockchain-based network for Helium. This entirely new incentive model allows people to set up hotspots that act as Helium miners and serve data to devices. People can earn money by simply buying a hotspot and plugging it in.
"Mining HNT is done by installing a simple device on your home or office window," Helium wrote on their website, adding these "hotspots provide miles of wireless network coverage for millions of devices around you using Helium LongFi, and you are rewarded in HNT for doing this. And because of an innovative proof-of-work model (we call it "Proof-of-Coverage"), your Hotspot only uses 5W of energy."
There's no confirmation Helium hotspots are the devices being found by officials, but speculation indeed points to that.
I wonder how a solar panel could be considered illegally installed.
Oh, wait!
No city permit makes it illegal.
If the local government never issued a permit the can find out who put it there. Send out the bomb squad to blow them up and see who shows up to replace it. If no one shows up, at least they got to blow something up.
Think you are on to something....opening the locked battery box and seeing what electronics/routers, etc. are inside will tell the tale. Could very well be someone trying to extend the range of the “Helium Network” near SLC: