Re: The only thing that makes a smart meter of any use to anyone
FYI You are the last person in the queue for the data from your smart-meter. In front of you are:
- Your electricity supplier (who want to charge you more if you put your kettle on when they are struggling to meet the load, because they pocketed too much of your bills instead of building the required capacity)
- Your council (who will be able to profile the number of people living in your dwelling-house to make sure you are paying the proper rate of council tax)
- Your insurance company (because they will use any scrap of evidence to blame you for overloading your circuits when your house burns down, and thus avoid paying out)
- The BBC (who will be able to profile repeated tiny spikes during popular TV programmes and thus detect if you are dodging the license fee)
- Data-mining companies (who will pay good money for any sufficiently-large high-quality dataset about anything)
Biting the hand that feeds IT
