Uploaded on 2014-11-27 by Paulo_G

[1]: https://edxuploads.s3.amazonaws.com/1417099309128223.jpg Tall wooden pole responsible for the transition of electricity and communications of an apartment block in Lisbon, Portugal. **Short contextual explanation** The existence of this poles is (still) quite common, the one in the picture is responsible distribution of electricity, telephone and cable network to a small block of apartments. This distribution in one way only with no input from the housing and it's very important, because electricity it's the main energy of consumption in apartments. In this case the buildings are quite old and thermally inefficient, in this way they demand major quantities of energy to maintain thermal comfort, this is true especially during winter. Other alternatives like energy generation are still very expensive in the Portuguese market, and the burning of biomass (fireplaces) is mostly reserved to rural areas. The presence of distribution poles is still very common and with strong presence in some urban areas that rely entirely on this old system. On some areas, iconic, central or more developed areas, the distribution is made under the soil. Recent planning of infrastructures, and in particular electricity distribution take this into account, and plant the distribution to be made under the soil. It also incorporate remote systems of control and analysis (sensors). This system data management system is made on-top of the cell phone GSM infrastructure.