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| Thread ID: 150901 | 2022-09-24 20:04:00 | Smart water meter installed | Roscoe (6288) | PC World Chat |
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| 1488426 | 2022-09-24 20:04:00 | We had the new smart water meter installed the other day. Apparently it is similar to the smart electricity meter and they do not need to come out to read it. I understand how they can read the electricity meter but how do they read the water meter? The electricity meter is connected by the power wires but the water meter does not have wires, so how do they read the meter remotely? We'd be interested to know how that works.:help: |
Roscoe (6288) | ||
| 1488427 | 2022-09-24 21:26:00 | probably self powered from the water flow. have a turbine inside it to charge a cap/battery. | tweak'e (69) | ||
| 1488428 | 2022-09-24 21:42:00 | If its anything like our power smart meter that uses a 3g signal to send data. Possibly powered as tweaked posted for power. | wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1488429 | 2022-09-24 21:42:00 | What region are you in, Roscoe? Such a device is appealing. I was furious with Watercare (Auckland City) who did 7 successive months of estimates (= terrible supervisory controls of meter readers) before getting an Actual reading with a huge catch-up invoice. | Neil F (14248) | ||
| 1488430 | 2022-09-24 21:55:00 | What region are you in, Roscoe? Such a device is appealing. I was furious with Watercare (Auckland City) who did 7 successive months of estimates (= terrible supervisory controls of meter readers) before getting an Actual reading with a huge catch-up invoice. We are in Onehunga, Neil. Tweaked: That's perhaps part of the answer. But how does it transmit the reading back? There are no wires, only water pipes. It's a bit of a conundrum. |
Roscoe (6288) | ||
| 1488431 | 2022-09-24 22:12:00 | I wonder if it works a bit like an RFID device, where there is still a worker in a vehicle driving past each property, emitting a signal that is strong enough to power up a weak transmitter and sensors on a meter that is otherwise still a traditional mechanical device. With a meter that generates its power from water flow... what happens when the property is vacated and there is no flow? |
Paul.Cov (425) | ||
| 1488432 | 2022-09-24 22:57:00 | www.watercare.co.nz and envocore.com |
piroska (17583) | ||
| 1488433 | 2022-09-25 05:42:00 | Oh, a long life battery. I was hoping for something more creative. There's a downside to this that they probably haven't anticipated... without the need for regular access, the meter boxes will become grown over and effectively be lost in the ground, causing drama whenever they do eventually need to be accessed (for plumbing work or meter replacement). At worst, structures (eg garden sheds) might then be inadvertently placed over the top of them. | Paul.Cov (425) | ||
| 1488434 | 2022-09-25 06:08:00 | Oh, a long life battery. I was hoping for something more creative. There's a downside to this that they probably haven't anticipated... without the need for regular access, the meter boxes will become grown over and effectively be lost in the ground, causing drama whenever they do eventually need to be accessed (for plumbing work or meter replacement). At worst, structures (eg garden sheds) might then be inadvertently placed over the top of them. As mentioned earlier via signal. You can bet your boots that if any meter lost signal for a certain amount of time it would be recorded as such and investigated as to why. | wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1488435 | 2022-09-25 06:30:00 | Oh, a long life battery. I was hoping for something more creative. The battery is Solar Powered! :D |
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