[94468] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Google wants to be your Internet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bob Martin)
Tue Jan 23 16:23:27 2007
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 15:22:29 -0600
From: Bob Martin <bob@buckhorn.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <200701231644.l0NGi4TX017765@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Our REA has been reading the meter via the copper running to our house
for several years now. Took them less than 2 years to realize a savings.
(And since it's a co-op, that means the price goes down :) )
Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 10:18:09 CST, Brandon Galbraith said:
>> Why don't utilities strike deals with celluar providers to push data back to
>> HQ over the cellular network at low utilization times (how many people use
>> GPRS in the dead of night?).
>
> Especially in rural areas (where physically reading meters sucks the most due
> to long inter-house distances), you have no guarantee of good cellular coverage.
>
> The electric company *can* however assume they have copper connectivity to
> the meter by definition....
