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From: phillip@bartal.CRLABS.COM (Phillip M. Vogel)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: KWH meter readings by phone?
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Date: 10 Oct 90 21:52:30 GMT
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Reply-To: phillip@bartal.CRLABS.COM (Phillip M. Vogel)
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In article <1676@ole.UUCP> ray@ole.UUCP (Ray Berry) writes:
>
>	I told a friend that there is at least one company offering hardware
>to read power meters remotely by phone and he told me I'm dreaming.  Does
>anyone on the net know about this?  Any info you could forward would be ap-
>preciated.
>-- 
>Ray Berry  kb7ht  uucp: ...ole!ray CIS: 73407,3152 /* "inquire within" */

I don't know about KWH meters, but my water meter is read by
phone.  There is a box labeled 'Neptune Information Systems model
T-1000' connected to the meter and phone line.  I did some
investigating, and found that the water company has a bunch of
equipment installed at the telco office and that they can put a
tone on your line which wakes up the box but doesn't ring your
phone. They do this late at night, and hey, what can I say but
the meter reader hasn't been here in over a year.
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