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yikes...not good for ITron

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Originally posted by cottonjim:
Bad publicity for the automated meter reading market in general. CNES needs to release a PR about why their system wont fail like this. Does anyone have the number for damage control?

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Originally posted by BchOus:
Do H-Net meters install outside or inside. I wouldn't want to leave my laptop outside in Florida, it would be destroyed in a short time...

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Originally posted by jagman925:
H-net meters replace existing meters, which in turn transmit to a data collection center instead of being read by a smelly meter reader every month.

Let's test your laptop anyway. Lol!

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Don't forget that there will be a lot of dissappointed, desperate housewives as well, if you know what I mean.

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always the funny guy eh dk?

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Just tryin to maintain some humor as we wait until our payday. Can't always be serious, ya know?

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........or for that fact smelly meter readers, although I can remember some pretty cute ones...

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Originally posted by Doniboy:
My father was a meter reader for 20 years.

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He must have been one of the cute ones

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Broadband firm strikes utility deal

BY LESLIE BROOKS SUZUKAMO
Pioneer Press - Minnesota

Wireless broadband Internet has been growing in popularity in big cities, but a start-up wireless carrier says it wants to bring that technology to the countryside to be used by utilities and manufacturers.

Arcadian Networks of White Plains, N.Y., is expected to announce today that it has signed Great River Energy of Elk River as its first customer.

The pact with Great River Energy is for nine years. The utility, which serves 1.7 million people in Minnesota and Wisconsin, will use wireless transmitters set up by Arcadian to connect to its various substations, meters and transformers scattered across two-thirds of Minnesota.

Arcadian calls itself a wireless broadband carrier, but unlike a cell phone company, it's not interested in carrying voice calls or serving densely populated urban areas.

Instead, it wants to create wireless data networks in rural areas for electric companies, oil and gas pipelines and the like with far-flung infrastructure wired Internet access cannot reach.

Utilities need constant data to monitor and correct problems remotely, but they don't have the expertise or money to build and maintain their own broadband networks, said Gil Perez, Arcadian Networks CEO.

Great River Energy estimates it would have spent $14 million to build the network on its own and millions of dollars more each year to maintain it. Instead, it spent $2 million on capital equipment, saving $12 million on the hardware, spokesman Jim Jones said.

The network is expected to be finished in 12 to 24 months, and the broadband access replaces a patchwork of outdated analog equipment and technologies, Jones said.

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