The point of SMART meters was NOT to help households, it was to do 2 things, Allow them to stop meter readers popping round to houses all the time and to try to prove that someone bypassed the meter. So far that has cost each individual in the UK (er... £200 per person). So are we all happy to spend £200 each to have electricity that can be remotely switched off and monitored and of course a little screen which tells you, you are using electricity to power the little screen? Apparently that somehow saves loads of CO2. Personally have an Electric Car, and even now I get meter reading people say to me "Your meter's not right, you can't be using 40KWH per day" in the future I'll be forced to have an app which says "You are using to much electricity, ask our Twitter Team for advice on how to use less".
Biting the hand that feeds IT
