Sac916
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Funny you say it has advanced beyond that point because it looks exactly like what we are installing here for smart meters.It's a little difficult to tell without knowing what type of neighborhood it is in. Is it an inner city? Rural planned development? Average suburb?
The smart meters here are being read through the same wires that carry the electric to the house, and I am considered very rural. They can read it, reset it, and turn it off or on. I doubt what you are looking at is a smart meter reading relay device, technology has advanced beyond needing anything like that.
I do have a theory or two based on some talks with a couple linemen and cable TV installers. Amazingly nobody seems to ever see them being installed, yet there they are one afternoon when you come home, but I digress.
As far as what that particular one is will depend on it's neighborhood and surrounding area.
Funny you say it has advanced beyond that point because it looks exactly like what we are installing here for smart meters.
I have had a "smart meter" since the mid '90s. It works as NC1 describes. I am even on an REA...Funny you say it has advanced beyond that point because it looks exactly like what we are installing here for smart meters.
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What they tell you it is, and what it really is, can be very different things. Why do they need those things in the neighborhoods if they can read your meter through the power line like is done here? Is it possible they are being used to read meters? Sure. But the information you have been given as to it's sole and entire function is probably no where near the whole truth.
Well, around here the electric utility and the natural gas utility are the same company. The "smart meters" are on both my electric meter and gas meter. Having one common system to read them all makes some sense, to me. Running a "read by wire" system for the electric meter, but a separate radio based system for my gas meter probably wouldn't be a good investment.
That is probably why your gas meter can talk to your smart meter, and all the information gets sent along through the power lines. Many of these things can, and often do, connect.
If these mystery boxes are mostly in higher crime areas, I would suspect it to be a gunfire detection system. They are already in most cities.