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   From: YourName@YourISP.com   
      
   On 2025-10-27 23:27:42 +0000, Bobbie Sellers said:   
   > On 10/27/25 16:05, Scott Lurndal wrote:   
   >> Your Name  writes:   
   >>> On 2025-10-27 15:36:44 +0000, Paul S Person said:   
   >>>>   
   >>>> This is unlikely to happen with water meters -- at least here --   
   >>>> because they are mostly buried in the ground and getting a wireless   
   >>>> signal out might be difficult.   
   >>>   
   >>> Most water meters here are in boxes* in the garden (for houses anyway).   
   >>> The boxes have an easily removeable lid so the meter reader can quickly   
   >>> access them to read the dial numbers. Technically it should be   
   >>> relatively easy to either have a cellular / wi-fi meter that can   
   >>> connect.   
   >>   
   >> Technically, such radio device would require power, something that is not   
   >> generally present at the water company valve box.   
   >   
   > 	Easily if expensively remedied with a inline turbine to generate the   
   > power to deal with the radio device.   
   >   
   > 	bliss   
      
   Or simply a wire from the house mains supply, appropriately lowered for   
   the smart meters' power requirement of course. Power and water services   
   (along with ye olde landline phone) are often fairly close together   
   anyway to save on digging multiple trenches.   
      
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