Apologies if this question has been asked before, but does anyone have any negative views as to why we shouldn't have a smart meter installed. I assume everyone will have them in the future.
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Apologies if this question has been asked before, but does anyone have any negative views as to why we shouldn't have a smart meter installed. I assume everyone will have them in the future.
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Well, they don't actually do anything, other than indicate how much you are using, so a passive device. Allegedly they depend on your supplier, if you change supplier they may not work.
The current operating system will soon be updated and the current meters will be obsolete.
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... and, if I've understood correctly, they rely on a mobile phone signal to communicate with base, so that won't work here, then!
No fast internet, no mobile phone signal, wobbly electricity ... but great quality of life.
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Son has them. The meter has a sim in it and it communicates with the company and your phone is not absolutely needed
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If you don't pay they can cut you off over the internet instead of having to send a gadgee round who has to gain access, or digging up the road. Likewise if they decide to have rolling blackouts, which is not impossible given the exciting plans for future electricity production.Originally Posted by antonio
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You do need a mobile signal though!
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We've had one for a year or two, and we have saved approximately no money. It glows green when my valve amp is on, and red when the tumble dryer is running. So that settled an argument with Mrs. Pony.
My mate flatly refuses to consider getting one, for the same reason he wouldn't have an Amazon echo, he reckons they allow undesirables to spy on your comings and goings.
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Correct
SSE installed one for us then uninstalled it when it couldn't find a signal on any network
Apparently new versions that use radio signals are being rolled out next year
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Oh goody - even more RFI pollution to contend with then.
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Smart Meters?
Don't have any. Don't want any. My supplier doesn't use them afaik. I'm happy with my supplier. Bulb
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“Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. This is the supreme test. It is the glory of Lincoln that, having almost absolute power, he never abused it, except on the side of mercy".
“You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.”
"You don't have free will. You have the appearance of free will.”
“There's a war out there, old friend. A world war. And it's not about who's got the most bullets. It's about who controls the information. What we see and hear, how we work, what we think... it's all about the information!”
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