Home Control Takeover
Homeowner Illusion of Control
Utility companies boast of how the customer will be able to save money by monitoring real-time home power usage and make adjustments accordingly. Yes, what a great idea. In fact, a product just like that has been on the market for years.
Who ultimately controls the power in your home?
Not you. Power companies control the computer program as well as the updates and ability to upload "new firmware via the network".
Utility's Remote Shut-off Switch
With an analog meter, the utility company must send an employee to your home, locate the meter box in order to disconnect your power. It is difficult and it has to be done on site.
With the Smart Grid and a mere flick of a switch all utilities (electric, gas and water) can be wirelessly manipulated by anyone with access to the software and a control device. It's a utility-controlled computer (aka Smart Meter) forced onto the side of your home. It's easy and can be done remotely.
Utility companies boast of how the customer will be able to save money by monitoring real-time home power usage and make adjustments accordingly. Yes, what a great idea. In fact, a product just like that has been on the market for years.
Who ultimately controls the power in your home?
Not you. Power companies control the computer program as well as the updates and ability to upload "new firmware via the network".
Utility's Remote Shut-off Switch
With an analog meter, the utility company must send an employee to your home, locate the meter box in order to disconnect your power. It is difficult and it has to be done on site.
With the Smart Grid and a mere flick of a switch all utilities (electric, gas and water) can be wirelessly manipulated by anyone with access to the software and a control device. It's a utility-controlled computer (aka Smart Meter) forced onto the side of your home. It's easy and can be done remotely.
Homeowner Illusion of Control
Utility companies boast of how the customer will be able to save money by monitoring real-time home power usage and make adjustments accordingly. Yes, what a great idea. In fact, a product just like that has been on the market for years.
Who ultimately controls the power in your home?
Not you. Power companies control the computer program as well as the updates and ability to upload "new firmware via the network".
Utility's Remote Shut-off Switch
With an analog meter, the utility company must send an employee to your home, locate the meter box in order to disconnect your power. It is difficult and it has to be done on site.
With the Smart Grid and a mere flick of a switch all utilities (electric, gas and water) can be wirelessly manipulated by anyone with access to the software and a control device. It's a utility-controlled computer (aka Smart Meter) forced onto the side of your home. It's easy and can be done remotely.
Utility companies boast of how the customer will be able to save money by monitoring real-time home power usage and make adjustments accordingly. Yes, what a great idea. In fact, a product just like that has been on the market for years.
Who ultimately controls the power in your home?
Not you. Power companies control the computer program as well as the updates and ability to upload "new firmware via the network".
Utility's Remote Shut-off Switch
With an analog meter, the utility company must send an employee to your home, locate the meter box in order to disconnect your power. It is difficult and it has to be done on site.
With the Smart Grid and a mere flick of a switch all utilities (electric, gas and water) can be wirelessly manipulated by anyone with access to the software and a control device. It's a utility-controlled computer (aka Smart Meter) forced onto the side of your home. It's easy and can be done remotely.
Smart Appliances
Since 2014, appliances come with a Zigbee "Smart" chip, which:
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Smart Meters Are a Dumb Idea: Bureaucrats Shouldn’t Have Control Over the Nation’s Appliances: "Smart meters also give the highly regulated utilities the ability to adjust and restrict the flow of electricity to customers." "Obama energy czar Carol Browner told U.S. News & World Report last year, 'We need to make sure that … eventually we can get to a system where an electric company will be able to hold back some of the power so that maybe your air conditioner won’t operate at its peak.”' --- The Washington Times, March 18, 2011.
Smart-Grid Security: Under Construction: The concern about smart-meter security arises from its close, direct interface with households, able to turn on and off utilities, send signals to appliances to turn off during peak energy demand times, and potential abuses therein. Creegan said this “two-way command and control” necessitates “dilig[ence]” about the system’s security. --- New New Internet (TNNI) news updates on public and private cybersecurity, June, 2009
Smart-Grid Security: Under Construction: The concern about smart-meter security arises from its close, direct interface with households, able to turn on and off utilities, send signals to appliances to turn off during peak energy demand times, and potential abuses therein. Creegan said this “two-way command and control” necessitates “dilig[ence]” about the system’s security. --- New New Internet (TNNI) news updates on public and private cybersecurity, June, 2009
Demand Response or Remote Rationing
With Demand Response, SCE can make an evaluation of your power use and determine that you are using too much or using it at the wrong time of day. They can selectively and remotely turn off your RFID-chipped appliances. This makes it easy to turn off your dryer, thermostat, and other appliances and opens a your home to another layer of surveillance. This happened to an 80 year old Palm Springs man. His wet clothes sat in his dryer because it would not turn on…wrong time of day for him.
"Demand response" programs encourage consumers (charge high rates or shut off) to reduce or shift their electricity use (e.g. from afternoon to evening) in response to price signals or to reduce the possibility of overloading the electric grid in times of high demand. Such programs, now available to commercial and industrial customers, could be extended to residential and small business customers with smart meters. Through such optional (like the Smart Meters?) programs, utilities could offer price incentives, payments or rebates to consumers for shifting or reducing their electricity consumption. Under such demand response programs, with customer authorization, utilities can cycle air conditioners off or adjust programmable communicating thermostats when demand for electric service exceeds available supply." ---From CenterPoint Energy, a Houston-based utility
With Demand Response, SCE can make an evaluation of your power use and determine that you are using too much or using it at the wrong time of day. They can selectively and remotely turn off your RFID-chipped appliances. This makes it easy to turn off your dryer, thermostat, and other appliances and opens a your home to another layer of surveillance. This happened to an 80 year old Palm Springs man. His wet clothes sat in his dryer because it would not turn on…wrong time of day for him.
"Demand response" programs encourage consumers (charge high rates or shut off) to reduce or shift their electricity use (e.g. from afternoon to evening) in response to price signals or to reduce the possibility of overloading the electric grid in times of high demand. Such programs, now available to commercial and industrial customers, could be extended to residential and small business customers with smart meters. Through such optional (like the Smart Meters?) programs, utilities could offer price incentives, payments or rebates to consumers for shifting or reducing their electricity consumption. Under such demand response programs, with customer authorization, utilities can cycle air conditioners off or adjust programmable communicating thermostats when demand for electric service exceeds available supply." ---From CenterPoint Energy, a Houston-based utility