said by John Galt 
:said by ctceo :We have AMR installed at the place where I live, and yet in the winter for some asinine reason the gas co. does "estimated" reads, and they give you hell and asses a fee when you do a USER read.
The reason is because these systems do not always work "as advertised".
I have been to many buildings that have the hardware installed, but the meter readers still make the rounds.
That is why the BPL would work for the utilities...it uses the existing infrastructure and does not rely on radio signals.
There's plenty of AMR systems that use PLC which is the low bandwidth non-interferring predecessor to BPL. I've had PLC based AMR for years at my house and nearly every meter I've seen in the past several years here in Eastern PA is a PLC based AMR meter.
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