I appologize for piling on, here...but it hadn't occured to me that BPL would enable power companies to automate their meter reading. A digital back-channel, if you will. Thanks to Jim Lux for making
Does anyone have details on how the power companies handle their remote meter reading? Obviously the bandwidth requirements are not very high, particularly outside the time-of-use scenario. My power
There are already better ways to do that... Low power RF Part 15? radios in the 900 mhz band. Not only can they do meterreading but they automatically report power outages, which wont happen when the
At 06:24 PM 1/9/2004 -0600, Tyler Stewart wrote: There are already better ways to do that... Low power RF Part 15? radios in the 900 mhz band. True enough, but, nobody ever said that the technically
BPL won't work because the customers in rural areas who are supposed to be served by it won't go near it. The power companies have a hard enough time keeping them connected ( I am one, I average 4 ou
My memory is faulty on this, but I seem to recall that in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area the meters were converted to RF reading. It was such a disaster that it was stopped. I believe that they have g
Tod: In Texas, Texas Utilities (the "corporate name" of the old Texas Electric Service Company, Texas Power and Light, and Dallas Power and Light), has both a "winter rate" and a "summer rate". Also