Yes but that requires equipment manufacturers to get together with the
utilities and probably make different models of their meters for each frequency.
It’s easier and cheaper for them to just make 900 MHz which everyone everywhere
can use.
> On Aug 27, 2019, at 5:50 PM, dave via AF wrote:
>
My beef with utilities is insted of using unlicensed spectrum use a band
that make sense for this like 220Mhz which is widely available in most
rural areas. One license would take care of our county and it would be
your channel completely free of pissed off wisp and baby monitors lol.
I almost c
+1 Same experience here. Occasionally they will run software updates that
broadcasts out to about 200 kbps to each meter. It will bring your 900 AP's
to a crawl. We've coordinated the schedule of meter updates with the power
company to perform between 2-4am. Thankfully they only run updates once
or
Yes actually,
The power company around here just installed 900 MHz smart meters and what we
saw was during the first few weeks when they turned it on and they were doing
software updates there were some significant modulation issues, although data
did still pass.
After the software updates wer
Does anyone have any quick and dirty sets of documents discussing experiences
they’ve had with 900mhz smart meters, noise associated, and any other data
points?
Thank you,
Ben Royer, Operations Manager
Royell Communications, Inc.
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