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From: dninja at gmail.com (Robin Wood)
Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 23:55:29 +0100
2009/5/11 Vincent Lape <vlape at me.com>:
the meters in western PA use an inductive probe mounted on the outside of the home. the utility worker has to make contact with the probe which gives the relative position of the meter gauges. The power company has been testing some electric meters that transmit the data back via the power grid. I decided to research the meter shown on the video and its kinda cool. they can shut service remotely, you can pay from its keypad, seems to have all kinds of tamper protection. im trying to get ahold of a tech manual
I can see a whole load of hackers getting into trouble with these meters. Traditional hackers just out of curiosity and nasty hackers from trying to defraud the system. I guess the cash saved by removing call centres and guys in vans will probably make up for the loss of revenue for the few people who do manage to hack the system. Let us know what you find out. Robin
On May 11, 2009, at 5:42 PM, Robin Wood wrote:Hi Some utility providers are looking at rolling out smart meters for gas and electricity which they can read remotely. Does anyone know how that works? What are they using to connect to the device to send out the data? If it is over your broadband then it won't be long till someone sniffs the packets and sends fake readings back, if it is wireless and they have a guy drive past then there are similar sniffing problems, you also have to worry about interference. They could have a GSM card in, in which case, how long till someone cracks one open and tries to use the card in a phone, I imagine it would be locked to a single number but people would try. I can't think of a secure and problem free way to do this. Any ideas? Here is a BBC video about the meters. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8040232.stm Robin _______________________________________________ Pauldotcom mailing list Pauldotcom at mail.pauldotcom.com http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com_______________________________________________ Pauldotcom mailing list Pauldotcom at mail.pauldotcom.com http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com
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