[94462] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Google wants to be your Internet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jamie Bowden)
Tue Jan 23 12:36:30 2007
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 12:25:24 -0500
In-Reply-To: <200701231644.l0NGi4TX017765@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
From: "Jamie Bowden" <jamie@photon.com>
To: <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>,
"Brandon Galbraith" <brandon.galbraith@gmail.com>
Cc: "Daniel Golding" <dgolding@t1r.com>,
"Niels Bakker" <niels=nanog@bakker.net>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Virginia Power replaced our meter over the summer with a new one that
has wireless on it. The meter reader just drives a truck past the
houses and grabs the data without him/her ever leaving the truck. I
have no idea what protocol they're using, or if it's even remotely
secure.
Jamie Bowden
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"It was half way to Rivendell when the drugs began to take hold"
Hunter S Tolkien "Fear and Loathing in Barad Dur"
Iain Bowen <alaric@alaric.org.uk>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On=20
> Behalf Of Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
> Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2007 11:44 AM
> To: Brandon Galbraith
> Cc: Daniel Golding; Niels Bakker; nanog@merit.edu
> Subject: Re: Google wants to be your Internet
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> On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 10:18:09 CST, Brandon Galbraith said:
> > Why don't utilities strike deals with celluar providers to=20
> push data back to
> > HQ over the cellular network at low utilization times (how=20
> many people use
> > GPRS in the dead of night?).
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> Especially in rural areas (where physically reading meters=20
> sucks the most due
> to long inter-house distances), you have no guarantee of good=20
> cellular coverage.
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> The electric company *can* however assume they have copper=20
> connectivity to
> the meter by definition....
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