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   From: YourName@YourISP.com   
      
   On 2025-10-28 00:08:37 +0000, Your Name said:   
      
   > 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.   
      
   Or, even easier, just put the smart meter inside the house where the   
   mains supply enters the building. (External garden taps might be a   
   problem if the pipes branch off befoer entering the house.)   
      
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