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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington
Cashy, if your energy supplier needed to install new meters for safety reasons(because your current meter was outdated) then you can ask for a dumb meter...this is the same as a smart meter, but it is not connected by a SIM card to the suppliers network.
These supplier networks are supposed to only accept messages from the supplier and are encrypted. This does mean that your energy supplier could(in theory and at times of high demand) instruct your meter to cease supplies to your property.
Now with conventional non smart meters, I don't think that is possible.
You might think this scenario would not happen, but as there is a move away from power generated by fossil fuels in favour of energy produced in other ways( wind turbine for instance) I can see a time coming when there will not be enough energy to go around and selective areas may be targeted in reduction of power supplies.
A smart meter is something that is installed in your home, on THEIR network, for their benefit.
Who is to say, in the future, how the information collected will be used. It may even be sold on to third parties who sell things like domestic appliances.
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Lets go back a few years, YOU decided to buy a computer, YOU decided to connect to the internet, I'm glad you did, so far as I'm concerned many an entertaining hour even though you have left yourself 'open' to hackers, how oh please tell me how, anyone would be more interested in you if you had a smart meter?
Only reason anyone pays attention is because you put on sensibly interesting posts, the intelligent meter can only be a disadvantage to someone that has something to hide, if it cuts down on my bills (and eventually our combined carbon footprint) I'm all for it.
Note to self, stop putting it off, get yourself signed up, you are only avoiding it because you'd have to spend your free day actually cleaning and washing and DIYing, maybe, yep maybe, your right Margaret, it's a step too far why should I do any of that stuff?