Virginia Power replaced our meter over the summer with a new one that has wireless on it. The meter reader just drives a truck past the houses and grabs the data without him/her ever leaving the truck. I have no idea what protocol they're using, or if it's even remotely secure. Jamie Bowden -- "It was half way to Rivendell when the drugs began to take hold" Hunter S Tolkien "Fear and Loathing in Barad Dur" Iain Bowen <alaric@alaric.org.uk>
-----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On Behalf Of Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2007 11:44 AM To: Brandon Galbraith Cc: Daniel Golding; Niels Bakker; nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: Google wants to be your Internet
Why don't utilities strike deals with celluar providers to
On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 10:18:09 CST, Brandon Galbraith said: push data back to
HQ over the cellular network at low utilization times (how many people use GPRS in the dead of night?).
Especially in rural areas (where physically reading meters sucks the most due to long inter-house distances), you have no guarantee of good cellular coverage.
The electric company *can* however assume they have copper connectivity to the meter by definition....