On 1/22/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Daniel Golding</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:dgolding@t1r.com">dgolding@t1r.com</a>&gt; wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<div>One interesting point - they plan to use Broadband over Power Line (BPL) technology to do this. Meter monitoring is the killer app for BPL, which can then also be used for home broadband, Meter reading is one of the top costs and trickiest problems for utilities.&nbsp;
</div><div><br></div>- Dan<br></span> </div><div><span class="e" id="q_1104fba8fe792465_1"><br><div><div>On Jan 22, 2007, at 12:28 PM, Niels Bakker wrote:</div></div></span></div></div></blockquote></div><br>Why don&#39;t utilities strike deals with celluar providers to push data
back to HQ over the cellular network at low utilization times (how many
people use GPRS in the dead of night?).<br>
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-brandon<br>