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This video is not as much about knowing when to use your devices, but more to wat it divulges about your private life!
With smart meters the utilities can know what programms or video's you watch on your tv!
So it is not the klumsy video it looks like!
Bit like "big brother is watching you" without you knowing!
And it shows that hacking a "smart meter" is possible!
So if utilities want to find out if you charge your car, it can easily do that without you knowing it!
While this is all true, I don't need a smart meter in my basement to tell me current electricity rates - and decide when to start the dish washer.
No, they can't. Distribution transformers don't have SCADA systems, so no utility that I know of has the slightest idea of what's happening at this level, in real time. More importantly, they can't assign cost-causation for people driving high usage.Current usage of individual households is rather useless for the utility as long as dumb meters are in use in my local area. They can link a meter to the local distribution transformer ("Mittelspannungsebene") for a fraction of the cost to get a reliable information of current usage in the local area, covering all households, street lights, residential and business, and so on.
Smart meters have their own IP addresses and share information in real time, without user intervention. This is an important difference.Meters are read by owners/tenants and information is collected via web.
Because utilities don't trust meters that they don't own. Although with recent reports of smart meter hacking, you have to wonder whether they should even trust that!Most EVs will have a permanent data link. It is an easy software app to implement smart charging on the vehicle side, independent of charge location.
Not everyone is altruistic; without a smart meter, you only get to feel good about your conservation efforts, but you'll receive no financial reward for shifting your usage to off-peak periods. Most consumers need that financial reinforcement of well-intentioned motives.So why is a smart meter a necessity for a smart grid?
Personally, I have given up the illusion that anything I do involving the Internet, phones, or just about anything else is private. Just lead a blameless life, and what have you to fear? (Yeah, like I do that....)
I think you missed the point. The smart meter is there to tell the utility when you're consuming the power, so they can bill you appropriately. Otherwise they can't tell if you're running your dryer at peak rates or overnight. It's not about you - it's about your bill!