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To: engineer who wrote (126100)	12/19/2002 11:14:20 AM
From: kech	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 152472

I was talking to a manager of an electricity meter manufacturing company and he still says that there are lots of different solutions for meter reading and the industry can't seem to agree on one preferred form. Should it be satellite? Over the wires? Wi-LAN for the neighborhood as vans drive around and download the data for the neighborhood? (Can't remember if this was wired to the wi-lan server of if it was wi-lan to the server?) Did you evaluate the alternatives in your analysis suggesting EVDO is really the best way to go? The reason I ask is because this could still be a project worth evaluating and proving. One thing I remember him saying is that it is hard to justify just on the costs savings alone i.e. labor savings on meter reading, no matter which technology is used. However, their may be much bigger benefits in terms of electricity load balancing, time of day electricity pricing etc, that could possibly justify the costs.