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The term smart meter often refers to an electricity meter, but it also may mean a device measuring natural gas, water or district heating consumption. [1] [2] More generally, a smart meter is an electronic device that records information such as consumption of electric energy, voltage levels, current, and power factor.
Langley Collyer arguing with police officers during the removal of his gas meters, 1939. The Collyer brothers made the news again when, in 1939, workers from Consolidated Edison attempted to force their way into the house to remove two gas meters that had been shut off in 1928, and were met with hostility from the reclusive brothers. [27]
Consolidated Edison acquired or merged with more than a dozen companies between 1936 and 1960. Con Edison today is the result of acquisitions, dissolutions, and mergers of more than 170 individual electric, gas, and steam companies. Consolidated Edison acquired land on the Hudson River in Buchanan, NY, in 1954 for the Indian Point nuclear power ...
The meters send that information to ComEd through wireless technology. [26] ComEd has said that the technology "has avoided 7.6 million outages and generated $1.4 billion in societal savings." [27] The Smart Meter replacement project was awarded to Aclara Smart Grid Solutions, with the rollout starting in late 2016 in Chicago.
According to the annual Emerging Markets Smart Grid: Outlook 2015 study by the Northeast Group, LLC, the world loses US$89.3 billion annually to electricity theft. The highest losses were in India ($16.2 billion), followed by Brazil ($10.5 billion) and Russia ($5.1 billion).
The meter communicates to its collection point using 900 MHz mesh network topology. Automatic meter reading (AMR) is the technology of automatically collecting consumption, diagnostic, and status data from water meter or energy metering devices (gas, electric) and transferring that data to a central database for billing, troubleshooting, and ...
Forget researching the subject--I am harmed by Smart Meters NOW! Two months ago I figured out that Smart Meters were the reason I was virtually bedridden. I own my own home, but am forced to live in my car. SMART METERS ARE DANGEROUS! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Melissa Anti-Smart Meter (talk • contribs) 22:26, 5 June 2011 (UTC)
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