what is the truth about smart meters, no BS

[ross94]

Hi all, I was visiting my gran the other day who is 90 years old and I have noticed she had a smart meter fitted, I never asked when it was fitted but it looks recent. She lives in a council house so no doubt she never had a say in the matter as its their property. My concern is what are the health risks? Are there any? could they be harmful to her? She has always been and still is a very heavy smoker (around 80 years) but other than that she is still in relatively good health non the less and can look after herself and doesn't rely on any health machines.

So are they harmful to your health, is the meter likely to affect her in anyway or will she be fine? I can never find a straight answer on google about smart meters being harmful or not, there is a lot of contradictory, some say they are and some say they are not.
If there is anyone here who has a smart meter fitted? if so how is it?
cheers

 

[Taylortwocities]

How on earth could they be harmful? Pointless maybe, a totally stupid box with built in obsolesence certainly. But harmful? nah.

 

[ban-all-sheds]

My concern is what are the health risks?

None.

Are there any?

No.

could they be harmful to her?

No.

So are they harmful to your health

No.

is the meter likely to affect her in anyway

No.

I can never find a straight answer on google about smart meters being harmful or not, there is a lot of contradictory, some say they are and some say they are not.

Those who say they are harmful are tin-hat brigade loonies.

 

[ross94]

thanks guys, I can see where you are coming from ttc about them being pointless I think its all *******s and a money making scheme, no benefits to customers,
my only concern was the health side of things, come to think of it though if she can resist the harm from cigarettes for nearly 80 years and make it to 90! I am sure a few possible emf or radiowaves wont do any harm either.

thanks again guys, probably loonies like you say bas same people who thought mobile phones were dangerous, no concrete evidence to support these claims.
thanks for putting to bed this nonsense.
cheers guys

 

[ban-all-sheds]

thanks for putting to bed this nonsense.

If only.

 

[ericmark]

I would say in theory the smart could assist looking after the elderly as one should be able to over the internet check if the central heating is running and the kettle has been used even when the elderly persons home does not have internet. I want to do this with my father-in-law, however to date have not got the access codes to do it.

 

[m5kgk]

The WAN connection is GPRS via GSM. Its the equivilent of having a mobile phone in the meter cupboard.
The HAN connection is 2.4GHz 802.11g. Again, the equivilent of having a wireless access point in the meter cupboard.
I guarantee that she was already basking in plenty of RF transmissions before the smart meter went in

On another note, we moved into a property that had smart prepayment meters in it. We immediately got them switched to credit meters. The new supplier did it remotely but ballsed it up because they switched the electric first, which had the modem attached to it. The new supplier didn't support the meters in our property so once the switch happened they would 'revert' to standard meters. As soon as they did it they lost communication with the gas meter, which stayed in prepayment mode until we noticed when the credit ran out. (I was away for work, Wife at home with 3 kids) We had no way of topping it up. You can only get emergency credit when it has a connection to the network. I had to explain to the new supplier what they had done. I went through about 5 CSR's before someone understood what I was talking about. To be fair to her she got a meter person out within about 4 hours. He was confused because it didn't have a key or card slot to top up
He swapped it for a normal mechanical meter.

A few weeks on I started to notice strange problems on things connected to the 2.4GHz wireless network. Random disconnections and slow speeds.
I got the spectrum analyser out and found the source of the problems. The bloody smart meter modem
It was scanning the whole 2.4GHz band and beaconing at full power on every frequency looking for other smart devices/meters and the 'Smart Meter In Home Display'
So I decided that as this was no longer a 'smart meter' installation I didn't need the modem
One seal cut (on the modem, not the meter) and cable unplugged and the modem was dead. The 2.4GHz interference stopped. I logged it with Ofcom.

 

[Diver Fred]

The only health related item I can is that now she won't have strange meter readers visiting her in her house.
Whether or not you you see that as a good thing is up to you.

 

[mwatsonxx]

They will be unhealthy for certain people, when they get switched OFF accidently, you will be driven mad trying to get it switched back ON.

 

[SUNRAY]

She lives in a council house so no doubt she never had a say in the matter as its their property.

The meters have absolutely nothing to do with the council, or any other landlord for that matter unless they are the account holder.

 

[ross94]

The meters have absolutely nothing to do with the council, or any other landlord for that matter unless they are the account holder.

I highly doubt she would have asked for the smart meter.

 

[big-all]

I highly doubt she would have asked for the smart meter.

its more to do with a phone call or communication to the customer
bigging up the supposed positives and advantages making out its a good thing for free
with no mention off the the cost to fit on everyones bills off perhaps a ton and the negatives off cutting you off remotely by mistake

 

[ban-all-sheds]

with no mention off the the cost to fit on everyones bills off perhaps a ton

Probably a drop in the ocean compared to the increases on people's bills to pay for solar panel vanity projects...

 

[EFLImpudence]

Probably but - £11 billion, 26 million homes = £423.
http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/bills/article-4846700/Smart-meters-cost-household-420.html

Don't forget the cost of renting the sea-bed for off-shore of wind generators.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-offshore-windfarm-windfall--owns-seabed.html

 

[ban-all-sheds]

I thought the Daily Bile was a fan of the monarchy?