Smart energy metering

[Tradie]

You would think in 2025, there would be a simple affordable accurate way to measure energy on a property, which can be viewed, downloaded and analysed at your convenience using a local network.

When I look at CCTV systems, we install and how simple it has become, you plug in a couple network cables and so long as the network can handle the traffic, the scan of a QR code and you have full access to the systems, which have built in active deterrent built in warning lights, sirens and even 2 way communication, a quick scan of a QR code and you can share access to specific cameras. Now with Dolynk and DSS, life has just got a whole lot simpler for managing sites.

Look at home automation, home assistant has created an environment that anyone can setup and create scenes or automations.

Metering should be as simple as dropping a couple of CT's onto the cables, running a few wires to the meter location, switch on, download an app, scan the Qr code and bingo, we have full access to the data.

They say getting rich is easy, you just need a solution to a problem, the person who finds a simple easy domestic, commercial and industrial smart energy metering system that can be setup by electricians without having to spend thousands on training trying to understand complicated meter technology, buying expensive equipment and software, that can be installed and managed on a local network could make a quick bundle of cash.

[Thys LOW Elektries]

You get meters that can read and transmit data, they can even be switched on and off. Eskom are using them on remote farms and solar plants for metering usage and supply.
Our town council uses smart meters, also known as quadrant meters. When connected to a Wi-Fi antenna, you can monitor these meters.

I think the technology is there but while you have people in an office making decisions based on budgets and the fact that they had been reading meters by hand for decades, why change things?

[Derlyn]

Here in Slummies, a couple of years ago, a fortune was spent on upgrading water meters that are supposed to send in consumption automatically.

The municipality have now reverted to manual reading because the system does not work. Money well spent.