Description: What is a ‘smart’ meter? 'Smart’ meters wirelessly transmit granular usage data to utilities and 3rd parties in as small as one-minute increments, have two
What is a ‘smart’ meter? ‘Smart’ meters wirelessly transmit granular usage data to utilities and 3rd parties in as small as one-minute increments, have two antennas, receive and implement instructions, can control thermostats/appliance, etc. and make remote shut-off possible. What does ‘smart’ meter data indicate? It is the same size and shape as you old meter.
MA Department of Public Utilities and our electricity providers are deploying the multi-billion dollar (aproximately $7.5B if National Grid’s program is deployed in MA) so-called ‘smart’ meter ‘ AMI ’ Advanced Metering Initiative. Many hundreds of private antennae and 90′ data towers are being deployed in residential neighborhoods. (Will your neighborhood be next?) Attorney General Coakley estimates the cost to be $2,793 per meter.
The meters pulse microwave radiation – an especially dangerous form – to transmit heretofore private home-life data and receive instructions from the utility and 3rd parties via three brand new networks. AMI replaces old-style meters and transmit-only digital meters. (For ‘what is a ‘smart’ meter? click here .)