[RFI] ECM...etc.

[Alan NV8A (ex. AB2OS)]

In Brisbane, Australia 35 years ago we had a reduced rate for our 
electric water heater. The utility authority (the City, as it happened) 
could switch it on and off any time they wanted by sending the 
appropriate sequence of audio tones superimposed on the line. If we 
still needed to heat water during one of the high-demand periods when 
the reduced-rate power was off, we could flip a switch and heat our 
water with standard-rate power.

No RF imposed on the power lines to radiate all over the place. All that 
would be necessary to enhance the system would be to use different audio 
receivers responsive to a variety of tones.

Alan NV8A (long-ago VK4AFE)


On 09/03/04 06:53 pm Dave Bernstein put fingers to keyboard and launched 
the following message into cyberspace:
> If BPL gets deployed, we'll need some ECM.
> 
> Since BPL advocates occasionally cite energy management as a rationale
> for deploying BPL, its a useful topic to understand. They don't push
> very hard on this, and I've never found anything substantive behind
> their references. I beginning to think its mostly smoke.
> 
> Offering electricity users lower rates for off-peak usage would be a
> win-win for everyone, and requires only that the house meter be
> appropriately upgraded; being able to read this meter via the internet
> would save some labor costs and provide more convenient real-time
> readout to the consumer, but any network connection -- BPL, cable, or
> DSL -- could provide this. Pay-per-view satellite receivers use
> telephone lines to report usage information.
> 
>       73,
> 
>             Dave, AA6YQ
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rfi-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:rfi-bounces at contesting.com] On
> Behalf Of jimjarvis at comcast.net
> Sent: Friday, September 03, 2004 18:24
> To: rfi at contesting.com
> Subject: [RFI] ECM...etc.
> 
> 
> Sorry.
> Jetlagged.  That was supposed to be EMC...as in electromagnetic
> compatibility.  As opposed to ECM, which is electronic countermeasures.
> 
> You make a good point about retrofitting appliances.   I would suppose
> that being able to add wireless isolated metering/monitoring to the
> electric, gas, or water supply would be a pre-condition.   Control of
> heating system and lighting, either automatically or remotely could have
> value for some
> I can't imagine that having appliances interfaced would add value to my
> life.   Coffee maker?  Frig?  Stove?   Interfaced pantry reporting stock
> levels of items and generating a shopping list?   I don't think so.  
> This is a major digression in one sense...but may be important to
> understanding what's driving the power industry's investment vision.
> I haven't read enough yet to see what their magic motive is for BPL.  
> n2ea
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