Public Utility Smart Meters

Tell me the box on the street corner and the house, simultaneously burning to the ground, aren't related.

 

What happens if I wrap the meter in aluminum foil?

 

It overheats and burns your house down.

 

Foil is probably not a smart idea.....although they do make Faraday cages for them.

 

RF signals cannot penetrate metal. Wrapping it in aluminum foil will do nothing but make them manually read it.

 

Go on, professor....

 

I will concede I used the wrong terminology.

The RF signals used by smart meters cannot penetrate metal. There's a reason all the meters at dock yards are done manually or by touch read. There's a reason why radio read meters in metal vaults need to be elevated above the metal lid.

 

Or like water meters, they have plastic lids.

 

Correct.

Depending on the municipal spec, some commercial or large residential (apartments) meters are located in vaults. Most of the time the meter and back flow assembly is above ground, but there are some that want to be different. Of course, Florida is a different animal compared to the rest of the country.

 

The biggest issue we encountered with installing smart meters, was their accuracy. While generally incredibly accurate, traditional meters almost always err in the customers favor as they age/wear. Some homes with old meters have seen dramatic increases after smart meter installation, in part because of this effect. There’s only been a few cases that I’m aware of, where smart meters created additional usage, and that was related to setting off a high wattage floodlight attached to a motion sensor.

 

It's the same way with water meters. Eventually they will slow down in favor of the customer. The technology is coming around so that the water meters will all be ultra sonic. Since there will be no moving parts, and the accuracy is far superior to that of a mechanical meter, it will improve the municipalities water loss. Customers will then be charged with the correct amount, which is going to piss a lot of them off. Of course the proper thing for the municipality to do is when they reduce the water loss they should lower the rates. Somehow I don't think that will happen...

 

That's an oddly specific and unusual light cycle for tomatoes

 

It was pretty obvious what he was trying to say without outright saying it.

 

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cell-t...ts-link-to-several-cases-of-childhood-cancer/

"According to news reports, Sprint - which owns the tower - shut down the tower even though the company says radio frequencies emitted were 100 times below the federal limit."

 

They realize that a jury will award based on the poooooor family deserves something rather than actual facts.