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To: engineer who wrote (126084)12/18/2002 1:33:52 PM
From: LarsA  Read Replies (1) of 152472
 
engineer, "all that is needed from the carrier for automatic meter reading is a reliable cheap offpeak data pipe that allows me to hook up a 1x or DO modem"
Sounds good to me, and even though a meter guy (on minimum pay?) may spend only 5 minutes per house, per month,I can see advantages.
BUT since they already have a grid, couldn't they transmit this information by copper, if they wanted to? Give every meter an IP address, and a chip or two.
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