Our local power company has smart meters that they absolutely read over the powerline.
I feel like even if you had to do a electric tap and a small access point at the transformer you could stomach it is the smile on it. > On Jul 19, 2018, at 20:46, Adam Moffett <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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? >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> AF mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > > > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list [email protected] http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
