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Just to confirm that we are human.

In addition, some residents within AMI mesh networks may also have “Medusa” meters on their property. One investigator reports: “A utility whistle blower told us about a special smart meter—a mini cell phone tower. This collection device receives data and more radiation from five hundred to seven hundred surrounding meters and uses the customer’s premises to serve as a relay station to transmit other neighbors’ data along the mesh network to collection points. These Medusa meters are deployed upon properties without the owner’s knowledge or consent. The utilities select a property for this meter based upon easy meter access to the street, no locked gates or dogs and good customer payment history. . . Utilities reward good customers with a Medusa meter and bathe their homes with additional toxic radiation.”12

The new smart grid signal infrastructure is a duplication of the massive cellular communications build-out which, over the last thirty years, has spawned over three hundred thousand microwave towers and rooftop antenna arrays from coast to coast. There are at least a dozen published epidemiological studies reporting that populations living within five hundred meters of cellular microwave antennas suffer high rates of adverse health effects including headaches, skin rashes, vision/hearing problems, dizziness, sleep disturbances, hormonal abnormalities and chronic fatigue. There are also many reports of cancer clusters among people living near cell towers or in buildings directly under them.
GREAT ARTICLE
https://www.westonaprice.org/health-topics/environmental-toxins/smart-meters-not-so-smart/

Hey Rick…..Don’t let the facts get in the way of a good story or conscripacy story …

The covers at Merit are not lead. They are an RF blocking fabric and made by smartmeterblock.com. I am guessing Merit did not put them there. There is one analog meter there at that bank of meters. I am guessing that the person who has the analog bought those covers and stuck them on.

BTW, blocking items like that are good for blocking the microwaves of others’ meters but not for one’s own meter because that meter will still conduct its emissions onto your house wiring (as seen in my video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NTSejgsjTc ).

Also, blocking devices do not eliminate RF 100%. If they did, APS would be out to see why they weren’t getting a signal. I have measured “smart” meters that were transmitting from inside a closed metal cabinet. The signal is weaker but there is still a signal. In the mesh network that these meters use, all the signal has to do is reach the nearest meter, not the antenna on Airport Mesa. That said, APS has admitted their meters’ signals can go for a mile. I used to live in a house in which the remote controlled ceiling fans would get adjusted by the neighbor’s “smart” meter 30 yards away.

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The smart grid is bringing the electric utility industry into the 21st century. In combination with smart meters, the smart grid enables consumers to monitor their energy usage. WOW,ALL THAT MONEY SO WE CAN READ OUR USAGE ONLINE!!!!!WOW
For utilities, it eliminates house-to-house meter reading, makes possible the remote connection and disconnection of electric power, and sends automatic alerts when outages occur.OR WHEN YOU HAVE VISITORS OVER!!

The smart grid enables retail electric providers to offer time-of-use rates that differentiate peak and off-peak consumption to encourage electricity consumers to shift their consumption patterns accordingly. TRANSLATION,FREEDOM OF CHOICE ELIMINATED, SLOWLY.YOU WILL HARDLY NOTICE YOUR ACTIONS ARE NOW BEING CONTROLLED!!It also enables consumers to support the integration of distributed generation (for example, electric cars, wind turbines and solar panels). SUPPORT THE INTEGRATION PEOPLE, I MEAN SHEEPLE!!!

But the smart grid is only as smart as the communications network that ensures the rapid and reliable two-way transmission of all this data. Over the past three years, CenterPoint Energy (Houston, Texas, U.S.) has been installing just this kind of advanced communications network.

Network Requirements
The mass of information accumulated by smart meters is of no value unless it can be transmitted reliably to the utility data center and processed. THIS IS DONE EVERYTIME IT PULSES MICROWAVE RADIATION THROUGH YOUR HOME’S WIRING SYSTEM ON AVERAGE ABOUT 94,000 TIMES A DAYHence, there is a critical need for an effective communications network. OF COURSE. I CAN’T BELIEVE I USE TO RELY OF IT JUST FOR LIGHT AND HEATING,NOW I CAN LOOK AT MY USAGE ALL DAY!!!!!IN REAL TIME!!! CAN YOU BELIEVE HOW GREAT THIS IS!!!!!!

To create such a network, CenterPoint worked with IBM, Itron, GE and Quanta Services. Each of these vendors has made a contribution to the network’s success:

IBM’s network methodology was the basis for the network’s architecture.
Itron provided meter, cell relay and system hardware, software and services.
GE provided WiMAX radios/antennas, management software and services.
Quanta provided meter and communications equipment installation services.
CenterPoint had seven exacting requirements for its communications network:

Have a comprehensive coverage design for a 5,000-sq-mile (12,950-sq-km) service area.
Provide two-way communications to endpoints (that is, to cell relays [meter data collectors] and intelligent grid switching devices).
Have data throughput capacity sufficient to transmit 96 interval readings a day from each of more than 2 million meters, and to execute all service orders generated.
Be reliable in all conditions, particularly storm conditions as the Houston area is susceptible to hurricanes.
Be secure, adhering to strict cyber-security standards.
Be scalable to keep pace with ever-increasing amounts of data as more smart meters and intelligent grid switching devices are installed in the years ahead.
Have adequate fail-over and redundancy to ensure backup in the event of a component failure.
Architecture Development
IBM’s network methodology was used to help CenterPoint develop the communications architecture for the smart grid. This methodology is represented by a collection of development templates, best practices and procedures for designing networks. The development process is structured in phases, from the requirements, to conceptual modeling, to logical modeling and, ultimately, to the final detailed network design. THANKS EVERYBODY!!!

The end result of this development process was a communications network design in which the meters form a mesh and communicate through cell relays. The design ratio of meters to cell relays is roughly 400:1. In the event a cell relay fails, the meters associated with the failed cell relay will migrate to an adjacent cell relay. THEY CAN MIGRATE SO YOU CAN STILL LOOK AT YOUR USAGE ANY TIME!!!!!!!!! THANK YOU FOR DOING THIS FOR US, I USED TO HAVE TO TURN OFF THE LIGHTS WHEN I LEFT THE ROOM!!! NOW I KEEP THE LIGHTS ON SO I CAN REVIEW MY USAGE IN REAL TIME ONLINE. UNLESS I FORGET TO PAY MY BILL, THEN I CAN LOSE MY POWER REMOTELY!!!!

From the cell relay, there is dual-path (primary and secondary) communications architecture. The primary communications path is the company’s private WiMAX network, consisting of radio towers, typically at substations, which connect to nearby cell relay sites. A failure of any segment of the company’s WiMAX backhaul communications will cause the cell relays associated with that segment to fail over to the secondary path, a public cellular carrier (AT&T) network.OK NOW WE KNOW WHY WE NEED SO MANY NEW TOWERS HERE IN LITTLE SEDONA, IT IS A BACKUP PLAN SO THE DATA NEVER STOPS MOVING!!!!! NOTHING TO DO WITH 5 BARS ON MY CELLPHONE!!!!!

The smart grid communications model was developed as an end-to-end design with dual communications paths to provide redundancy. By implementing a private wireless infrastructure as a primary communications path and using a public cellular carrier as the secondary path, CenterPoint was able to use the full strengths of both types of networks to create a reliable solution. This redundancy and resiliency enables CenterPoint to live up to its brand promise: “Always there.”YOU BET ALWAYS THERE,,WHEN YOU SLEEP(if you CAN sleep), WHEN YOU DO ANYTHING FROM THE MOMENT YOU OPEN YOUR EYES TILL THE TIME YOU GO ONLINE TO CHECK YOUR USAGE!!!!!!

Communications Network Build
Smart meters transmit electric usage data wirelessly to cell relays installed on electric distribution poles connected to both the WiMAX and cellular networks. More than 5,200 cell relay sites have been built across Houston to communicate with the more than 2 million meters installed across CenterPoint’s electric distribution territory.

The cell relay location consists of a cell relay, a wireless WiMAX remote radio and an antenna — all of which are powered by electricity from the power line with battery back-up. For approximately every 75 cell relay locations, there is a WiMAX radio tower site that functions as a take-out point (TOP) to collect the data. THIS PART IS FOR YOU TO UNDERSTAND WHAT IS GOING UP ON THE AIRPORT, BUT DON’T WORRY, THE P AND Z IS GOING TO HOLD FEWER MEETINGS!!! NO NEED TO THINK ABOUT ANYTHING BUT CHECKING YOU OWN USAGE IN REAL TIME!!!!

At the cell relay sites, communications crews program the WiMAX radio and then align the antenna to ensure the radio is communicating with the TOP. TOPs, which are built mainly at CenterPoint substations, collect data from cell relays within a several-mile radius and deliver the data, through the microwave and fiber backhaul network, to the data center.

The TOP consists of a 150-ft (46-m) steel lattice tower or pole. On the structure, crews installed three WiMAX antennas, spaced 120 degrees apart, to receive signals from surrounding cell relays. In addition, crews installed and aligned the microwave dish to connect with the core network through an adjacent microwave location. The telecommunications equipment for the TOP is sheltered inside a concrete building at the base of the tower or pole. Cell relay data collected through one of three master radios — one for each antenna — is routed over the microwave network by fiber-optic cable to the data center.

A data collection engine passes information collected from the cell relays to the meter data management system, which processes and stores meter data and also executes service orders. CenterPoint sends meter data to the Smart Meter Texas web portal, where consumers may securely view their historical 15-minute usage data in 24-hour, 30-day and 13-month snapshots. WOW!!!! OR WE COULD TURN OFF THE LIGHTS WHEN WE ARE NOT USING IT!!!!!

The Network Takes Shape
More than 2.2 million smart meters have been deployed, along with 5,220 cell relays and 140 TOPs. With these in place, more than 2 billion intervals of usage data are being recorded and made available to consumers on the Internet each week. THAT IS WHAT THEY ARE REVEALING TO YOU. WHAT, MY GOOD FREE CITIZENS ARE YOU REVEALING TO ALL THOSE COMPANY’S THAT BUILT THIS JUST FOR YOU????????

Communications network development must be closely coordinated with the meter deployment. CenterPoint’s meters were deployed by route, and the network communications infrastructure was in place and stable three months ahead of the meter deployment. This approach allowed meters to begin communicating with the system immediately. SOUNDS LIKE A GREAT PLAN FOR THE DATA COLLECTORS!!!! PLUSE YOU WERE ABLE TO CHECK YOUR USAGE RIGHT AWAY!!!!! NOW THAT IS SERVICE!!!!!!!

OR WE CAN JUST TURN OFF THE LIGHTS WHEN WE ARE NOT USING THEM AND WE CAN HAVE THE SMART METERS REMOVED, get busy, talk to your neighbors