Smart meter wireless hack

You can use that. The connection used in the meters is an optical link, there should be a round indentation with two dark spots somewhere, you can connect to that with the correct hardware. The sampling rate is set by the utility company.

In OK our meters sample in 15 minutes increments and our customers see that data on a website in 1 hour increments about 4 hours later. The meter cant tell us what is using the power, only how much kwh is consumed during that time frame. What a great project, thanks for posting it online. I see several on eBay. I have a street-readable meter that is queried once a month by a reader who merely drives down the street.

These guys and gals will be out of a job. Are we actually trying to put more people on the relief rolls, or what?

Great project on git that supports my attempt to read my meter at home. Worked like a charm! Thanks for the replies and hints I got on this site and what a slick little hack this was Question is do you know when your Energy Company is hacking into your meter falsifying your electricity usage?

Please, I want to calibrate, configure, increase, decrease index of the electricity smart meter by infra red optical port.

Somebody are the solutions? Thank you. I spent a bit of time getting this working with my meter. I had everything graphing beautifully. About a month later, a guy from the electric company knocks on my door and hands me a flyer. They were switching over our neighborhood to smart meters that transmit over the power lines back to the CO. And that day was the end of monitoring my energy usage. Now, I have to come up with a low cost alternative.

Does any one have any ideals on how to fix this issue with out involving the power company. Please be kind and respectful to help make the comments section excellent. Comment Policy. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. By using our website and services, you expressly agree to the placement of our performance, functionality and advertising cookies. Learn more. See Wireless wood stove monitor log for more infos.

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About Us Contact Hackaday. By using our website and services, you expressly agree to the placement of our performance, functionality, and advertising cookies. Learn More. Yes, delete it Cancel. You are about to report the project " Power Monitor smart meter hack ", please tell us the reason. Sign up Log in. Power Monitor smart meter hack A simple hack on a smart meter to monitor household power consumption vs Exterior temperature and wood stove usage.

Following Follow project. Liked Like project. This is more or less a death sentence to electricity meter production companies, or at the very minimum a large economical sink hole because they have to hire a certified company to perform the calibration for them. In short, if a certified company messes up the calibration, they are going to regret it. There is likely no economical incentive which will make up for taking such a risk,.

I should add that this is how it is done in Europe. Smart metering is the norm here, and the processes to safeguard the calibration process has been around for many years and is hopefully mature enough to be relied on. A few years ago my gas company replaced the meter because they said I was using an unreasonably low amount of gas. They never even asked if my usage really dropped.

OK, this temperature is to be considered to warm for the fridge. But for anything I want to sty and live in it is way too cold. I would accept such a temperature only if I would be really poor and the decision would be if I should buy gas or food.

Interesting, sounds like the house needs some better insulation. Best solution would be to tell the electrical company to sod off with their new fancy electrical meter :P. Or a really cool hack would be to generate the right frequencies to make the meters go slower instead of faster and get back the money that was stolen ;. Gone are the days of sticking a neodymium magnet to the side of the meter.

Interesting that you can add credit with the right frequency. But what about other weird loads? Plug between your switching load and wall socket a low frequency filter with inductors that can store energy to filter out spikes. Please be kind and respectful to help make the comments section excellent. Comment Policy. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. By using our website and services, you expressly agree to the placement of our performance, functionality and advertising cookies.

Learn more. Thanks [acs] for sending this in! Trust me! Report comment. You can even use non contact CT coil sensors. Begging for a meter using hall effect sensors to read the current. Literally entire books have been written about this, and probably several movies as well.

Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Search Search for:. Smart meters hacked in Puerto Rico. In , the Federal Bureau of Investigation investigated widespread incidents of power thefts in Puerto Rico believed to be related to smart meter deployment. The perpetrators were said to have hacked into the smart meters using an optical converter device connected to a laptop, allowing smart meters to connect with the computer.

The hackers were able to change the settings for recording power consumptions using software available on the internet after making a connection. This method does not require the removal, alteration or disassembly of the meter.

Another recent example of smart meter hacking was demonstrated by Mike Davis, a security consultant. He reverse-engineered a meter bought on Ebay and installed a computer program that replicated itself across the wireless network and blocked the utility company as it went. Jack Bode, writing for Canada. The old ways of tampering with analog meters may no longer apply to smart meters. One of the reasons smart meters were employed was to curb electricity theft. In fact, it is estimated that millions of dollars are annually lost due to electricity theft.

Nevertheless, the Puerto Rico incident demonstrates that a smart meter can still be vulnerable to attack using a simple laptop, an optical converter device and a program that can be downloaded from the internet.