Smart Meters - The Most Important 'Thing' In The Internet Of Things (A Creation Story)
RCRWirelessNews, Monday, November 20,2023
Note, this article is taken from the upcoming RCR Wireless editorial report on smart meters, and is spliced together from different excerpts from the report. The report - called, Smart Meters: Why Meters Matter, and How Cellular IoT is Driving the Energy Transition - will be out by the end of the week.
If we accept the planet faces an existential crisis in terms of how energy is generated and consumed, and we accept the business adage (sales gambit) that you can't manage what you can't measure, then smart meters are arguably the single most important technology out there. This is hyperbole, of course; but you get the point.
If society is in a race against time to change and manage the energy mix, and save itself from a climate apocalypse, then it needs the tools to mark its progress. The humble smart meter is the tool to save us all - so long as politicians and corporations are ambitious, brave, and correct with the data insights that flow out of it.