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This is true... today. Lots of utilities are already starting to install smart meters. Unless Wattvision is able to build a large installed base in the next 2-3
by paulhart 17y ago
This is true... today. Lots of utilities are already starting to install smart meters. Unless Wattvision is able to build a large installed base in the next 2-3 years, their technology won't have meters to attach to (or they'll be doing a new device with machine vision to read the digital displays on new meters, or they'll be interfacing with the meter information in a similar way to - or from - Google).
- tptacek 17y agoThe installed base of smart meters is going to dwarf Wattvision deployments, but you can probably safely bet that a YC startup will kick the ass of the consultants the utilities bring in to build "portals" and reporting.
- wmf 17y agoThe whole point of Google PowerMeter seems to be that utilities don't worry about presenting the data; they just send it to Google.