Smart meters yet again - EON

[whisky-dave]

I see you;re confused too, where have I mentioned the LED the LED doesnlt t ell me much especailly when I'm in the front room or anywhwere else.

My LCD energy meter which updates around 3 tiumes a second tells me how muc h power is coming through the live wire from the outside world, I can set t his meter to read the number of watts, or the curretn cost of that power. It ahs a setting for me to imput day and night rates and will display accor dingly, it also has the option where I can (using a USB cable) send the inf o of how much I use in increments of 30 mins for something like 3-4 months , where I can export this to a speadsheet or use their own tools to draw me a graph.

Again I DO NOT NEED to send this info the my leccy supplier every 30 mins.

[Andy Burns]

When my meter was smart (I changed supplier so now it isn't very) the supplier's website allowed me to choose how often readings were taken,

30 minutes, daily or monthly, I believe that is an OFGEM requirement.

[whisky-dave]

For the user(s) or supplier there's a big differnce. That was the problem my friend found when writing an app to do it, there just wasnlt the bandwidth for 1000s of users all to upload their data every 30 mins. Dont; forget this 1000 would actualy be millions as most housholds have electricity and teh plan is for tehm all to be smartmeters. So see if yuo can calculate the sort of bandwidht needed to up load millions of users data within a few minutes.

[Andy Burns]

It doesn't take much to realise that you can take the readings every 30 minutes, store them locally, then upload a compressed bundle say once a week or month, cutting out a shitload of handshaking ...

Trivial sums

[whisky-dave]

Yes you can but that won't tell the electric company how much leccy your using NOW or at any other time, that is the point. You don;t need to upload every 30 mins or even every hour or even everyday.

Yep and you'll find some interesting numbers that are trivial but significant especailly inn rural areas, It'll be a bit like the old style christmas post.

[Jeff Layman]

Are you saying that technophobic, stay-at-home monks aren't the norm?

[dennis]

You do if you want to use it via their web site.

[Harry Bloomfield]

whisky-dave has brought this to us :

For the Nth time - The meter does not transmit the data every 30 mins, it stores it every 30 mins and then forwards it once per day, as a batch of data!

[Harry Bloomfield]

whisky-:-[ explained :

They DON'T NEED TO KNOW, they only need a reading once every three months for billing purposes. Your meter forwards it to them, so that YOU have access to a log of YOUR CONSUMPTION on their website.

[Harry Bloomfield]

whisky-dave formulated the question :

Why all within a few minutes, that makes no sense at all. All that is needed is the data to be uploaded once per day and at anytime when capacity is available. Likely that will be over night.

24 x 2 x 7 digits plus meter details and checksum, per customer - is not really a lot of data.

[Harry Bloomfield]

Jethro_uk formulated the question :

Don't be silly!

[Harry Bloomfield]

Robin laid this down on his screen :

..and in the same program, they seemed to be suggesting that some SMET2's are being installed. Last I heard was that some test samples of SMET2's were being installed.

My experience so far, is three sets of new meters, with three swaps of suppliers.