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RE: Google wants to be your Internet
From: "Jamie Bowden" <jamie () photon com>
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 12:25:24 -0500
Virginia Power replaced our meter over the summer with a new one that has wireless on it. The meter reader just drives a truck past the houses and grabs the data without him/her ever leaving the truck. I have no idea what protocol they're using, or if it's even remotely secure. Jamie Bowden -- "It was half way to Rivendell when the drugs began to take hold" Hunter S Tolkien "Fear and Loathing in Barad Dur" Iain Bowen <alaric () alaric org uk>
-----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog () merit edu [mailto:owner-nanog () merit edu] On Behalf Of Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2007 11:44 AM To: Brandon Galbraith Cc: Daniel Golding; Niels Bakker; nanog () merit edu Subject: Re: Google wants to be your Internet On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 10:18:09 CST, Brandon Galbraith said:Why don't utilities strike deals with celluar providers topush data back toHQ over the cellular network at low utilization times (howmany people useGPRS in the dead of night?).Especially in rural areas (where physically reading meters sucks the most due to long inter-house distances), you have no guarantee of good cellular coverage. The electric company *can* however assume they have copper connectivity to the meter by definition....
Current thread:
- Re: Google wants to be your Internet, (continued)
- Re: Google wants to be your Internet Petri Helenius (Jan 21)
- Re: Google wants to be your Internet Travis H. (Jan 21)
- Re: Google wants to be your Internet william(at)elan.net (Jan 22)
- Re: Google wants to be your Internet Jim Shankland (Jan 22)
- Re: Google wants to be your Internet Niels Bakker (Jan 22)
- Re: Google wants to be your Internet Daniel Golding (Jan 23)
- Re: Google wants to be your Internet Brandon Galbraith (Jan 23)
- Re: Google wants to be your Internet Alexander Harrowell (Jan 23)
- Re: Google wants to be your Internet Valdis . Kletnieks (Jan 23)
- Re: Google wants to be your Internet Donald Stahl (Jan 23)
- RE: Google wants to be your Internet Jamie Bowden (Jan 23)
- Re: Google wants to be your Internet Saku Ytti (Jan 23)
- Re: Google wants to be your Internet Bob Martin (Jan 23)
- Re: Google wants to be your Internet Christian Kuhtz (Jan 23)
- Re: Google wants to be your Internet Sean Donelan (Jan 23)
- Re: Google wants to be your Internet Brandon Galbraith (Jan 23)
- Re: Google wants to be your Internet Andy Davidson (Jan 24)
- Re: Google wants to be your Internet Marshall Eubanks (Jan 23)
- Fwd: Google wants to be your Internet tvest (Jan 22)
- Re: Google wants to be your Internet Jeroen Massar (Jan 22)
- Re: Google wants to be your Internet Roland Dobbins (Jan 22)