What a massive waste of money the whole “smart” meter farce is. In a decade 4g will be phased out and everything will need to be replaced again. Meanwhile my “dumb” meter is easily over 40 years old.
I like my smart meter and I also enjoy not having some random potential rapist knock my door and expect to get into my home.
The meter is outside genius
I don’t live in a flat
Once again, UK investment and implementation of infrastructure is shite not the concept of smart meters.
For an example of a proper smart meter implementation nationwide, look at Estonia.
100% coverage. Works brilliantly.
In fact it works so well there’s companies that use the data generated by the smart meters to predict faults on the grid on the Low Voltage (LV = less than 2000 - 1000V in the electricity transmission world). That is unheard-of elsewhere because you’d normally have to install LV monitors for a few months on a location where faults have occurred to try and find it.
Fucking Tories, fucking Westminster, fucking civil service, fucking national grid, and the fucking utility companies all dragging their heels over this because the entire energy grid is privatised whereas anywhere else sensible, the national electricity backbone is nationalised with local networks semi or fully private.
Source: I work in th power industry.
Isn’t it weird how the operators of the largest and most widespread cable networks has to transmit their data over the air?
