At iTNews, James Hutchinson reports that NBN executives have started up preliminary talks with NSW electricity suppliers on the rollout of smart electricity meters, which would then hook up to the NBN for real-time monitoring purposes.
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For many, this Arduino-based MegaBitMeter – which measures your network data transfers – would be a useless piece of hardware. For me… I just like the idea of having analogue meters all around my computer, like the cockpit of a P-51 Mustang. [dk7sl]
Two presenters at Black Hat 2009 just demonstrated their ability to hack into parking meters in San Francisco (and theoretically anywhere with this kind of system) to give unlimited money on their parking payment cards. More »
