[LINK] smart metering

[stephen at melbpc.org.au]

Hmm .. seems to me that if every home, workplace and powered structure
will soon have an always-on smart meter point for home/work/car energy
metering.. then, utility companies may be smart to allow it to be used 
for many things. Eg if those smart meters everywhere could also top-up 
Myki cards, debit cards, phones etc, and so simply present one bill it
should be very useful, very popular, and, subsidize installation costs
enormously? An always-on interactive wall unit in all structures could
have many, many additional uses? Haha .. maybe even voting?

$200B expected for smart-grid technology

Sacramento Business Journal - by Denver Business Journal 
http://www.bizjournals.com/sacramento/stories/2009/12/28/daily8.html
Monday, December 28, 2009, 2:35pm PST


Governments and utilities are expected to spend a cumulative $200 billion 
on smart-grid technologies from 2008 through 2015, according to a report 
released Monday by Pike Research..

Pike Research predicted 84 percent of the $200 billion will go toward 
investing in automating the grid, while just 14 percent will go to smart-
meter technologies and 2 percent for electric vehicles.



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