In message <2506.12.6.201.111.1309558264.squir...@popaccts.quikus.com>, "J. For ster" writes:
>OTOH, it is hard to see the benefit of such meters to the utility, because >the reader person still has to walk house-to-house. Over here we read the meter ourselves, once a year, but they do random spot-checks where they use a PDA with an attachment to do the optical readout. I would pressume the error rate would be much lower than if the meter reader had to write down the numbers by hand... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.