> Look on the bright side: The "smart meters" allow
> the electric utility company to immediately identify
> a power outage and identify the areas affected,
If the meter's radio data transceiver operates on
electricity, which may be missing/out... how does the
dead radio notify the mother ship once the supply goes
away?
> which can drastically reduce the restoration time-
> especially in rural areas. With rural customers on
> conventional meters, some outages would last for
> many hours, even days, because some customers always
> think that "someone else" will call to report an
> outage!
I would not expect the restoration times to improve,
maybe the response time in some examples but probably
not the majority.
s.
