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With smart meters now substituting outdated electricity meters, the technology in our homes is altering. The meters that keep an account on our gas and electricity use and gives to energy organizations can eliminate sending manual meter readings in upcoming years. Over the years, governments anticipate that each and every small business and household will make the switch from analog energy meters to smart meters which will help families to save energy and money.
Smart meters send usage data to energy companies through a network identical to the one used to send text messages. One of the advantages of smart meters is that they collect data when people utilize energy, serving the energy network to meet demand. However, security is a major concern. The information used by the meters could be sold to other companies for commercial gain and also distress about genuine companies accessing the data, as the data could be accessed by deceitful hackers. But there is a kind of relief as smart meters have been made hard to hack as they do not depend on a household’s WiFi.
Smart meters rely on their own wireless connection to share energy-use data with suppliers. This wireless connection has been built to be exceptionally secure and is encrypted to avoid hackers being able to attack electricity supplies.
In the near future, utilities could place smart meters as a core for interoperating with all kinds of IoT devices at a customer location. As smart utility technology becomes omnipresent and refined, smart meters could provide new integrated energy services.
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