They use wireless for smart meters. Around here it's Wimax to feed a
900mhz base station, then 900 to the smart meter. In a different
municipality nearby they have a mobile system that polls the meters when
they drive by. So the meter reader still exists, but all he has to do
is drive slowly down the street.
I didn't look hard at BPL after learning about the transformer issue.
That seems to make it a non-starter as far as I can tell. I think you
can run some flavor of BPL on the primaries. Or run fiber down the
road. Or wireless to the transformer, BPL to the house.
If there was a viable business in BPL, every power company would already
be doing it. They've had plenty of time to research the topic.
-Adam
On 7/19/2018 8:38 PM, Matt Hoppes wrote:
Seems simple enough.
So what means exist for BPL to the transformer?
How do smart meters work? They have to jump the transformer some how.
On Jul 19, 2018, at 20:33, Adam Moffett <[email protected]> wrote:
Signal doesn't pass through transformers, so you need the access point on the
customer side of the transformer. So you need a means to get internet to the
pole which has the customer's transformer on it. If you could do that you
wouldn't need the BPL.
That's the long and the short of it.
On 7/19/2018 8:18 PM, Matt Hoppes wrote:
There was much chatter about this technology some years ago, and then the talk
of it fizzled - even though the FCC approved it.
Does anyone know of anyone making access wide area BPL equipment currently?
Anyone here have any experience with it?
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