Got a ‘Smart’ Meter? Get ready for your home to be turned into a public Wi-FI hotspot!

Imagine this.

You get an official letter from your local government authority notifying you that the government has decided to provide a free Wi-Fi network throughout the municipality and as part of the roll-out you are going to have a Wi-Fi transmitter installed on your home without your consent.

This would be a sure way to provoke widespread public outrage if introduced in this manner.

However, if the following comes to fruition, this is exactly what will happen. Now your smart meter will be transmitting even more frequently depending upon how many people are using the Wi-Fi network at any given time. AND you will have no say in how your home is used.

 

Death by a thousand cuts……..

Don

From US smart grid networks exploiting infrastructure to provide wireless broadband

The USDA Rural Development’s Rural Utilities Service (RUS) has now spent the $250 million committed for smart grid technologies. To this has been added an additional $201 million in funding approved by the Agriculture Secretary to electricity utilities in eight states to install smart grid technologies and improve their generation and transmission facilities. The beneficiaries are spread among a large number of states.

 

This investment is helping smart grids to become the norm across the country. A side benefit is that utilities are also developing their smart grids for telecoms over and above that used by meters to send data to network controllers.

 

As an example, earlier this year the utility serving Santa Clara began using its smart grid technology and infrastructure to deliver free citywide outdoor WiFi. While meters send data via an existing wireless network, a separate channel is used to provide outdoor internet access. The WiFi network is growing in scope and reach as more premises are equipped with smart meters.

 

The potential for expanding WiFi coverage is huge. There are about 120 municipalities with citywide WiFi networks accessible to the general public. In addition, there are about 60 cities with citywide or near citywide coverage though these networks are now limited to government applications, such as public safety. There are also about 80 or more cities with large outdoor WiFi areas, mostly located in parks and downtown zones.

 

A hindrance to cities aiming to develop comprehensive WiFi networks has come from the powerful telecoms industry, which employs its lobbying clout to push for laws blocking or preventing municipalities from offering WiFi or fixed broadband services.

 

The use of smart meters to provide WiFi using existing (and expanding) infrastructure presents a separate challenge, since the telcos would have to battle utilities rather than municipal governments.

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via Dr Don Maisch @ EMFacts.com: Will smart meters also be providing municipal Wi-FI? | EMFacts Consultancy.

8 Comments
  1. “Now your smart meter will be transmitting even more frequently depending upon how many people are using the Wi-Fi network at any given time.”

    And who gets to pay for all this extra usage? No thanks.

  2. There is technology for wireless internet in a home to broadcast what a person is doing in there home. http://www.washington.edu/news/2013/06/04/wi-fi-signals-enable-gesture-recognition-throughout-entire-home/

  3. There will be no hiding place from the electrosmog and a lot of people will be affected.
    The sad thing is that people will not even know it and will blame stress for their symptoms.
    It seems that those who have allergies are more prone to have emf related symptoms (as thought they don’t have enough problems already!) And about 30% of the population have allergies or the allergy gene(s). We could have as many as 30% of the population being chronically ill without even knowing why. That is a substantial number of people.
    Where is this going to end? I dread to think.

    • They installed one of these things on my house and it is totally messing with my AM radio reception. On a regular schedule it puts out a pulsing buzz that overwhelms the AM signal and all you hear is noise. I sleep at the other end of the house but what is this doing to the little kids sleeping in my neighbor’s house like 10 feet away from my meter box?

  4. How often does it send the pulse Mark? Have you tried sheilding?

  5. Ba Ba ba Bahhhh
    ba ba ba baaahh
    In our Electronic, Sea Of Death

    “We all live in an electronic sea of death, an electronic sea of death, an electronic sea of death”

    “We all live in an electronic sea of death, an electronic sea of death, an electronic sea of death”

    From NexRad dish to HF array,
    It doesn’t matter, if you pray.

    From Waffle-Boarded Cities, to Flooded Homes
    We don’t care, if your home
    We just need to fill the snowpack now,
    and some how charge you more

    So when the feds, kick in your doors,
    Remember tomorrow, they’ll bring some more.

    Cause

    “We all live in an electronic sea of death, an electronic sea of death, an electronic sea of death”
    “We all live in an electronic sea of death, an electronic sea of death, an electronic sea of death”

    Jello Submarines to Skittles Power Meltdown,
    It’s how they want to pound your “donkey”
    POTUS Choose teh FCC Board
    They wiped their mission statement with the Lectro-tronic Sea of death

    (I know that ain’t a word, quiet)

    Cause

    “We all live in an electronic sea of death, an electronic sea of death, an electronic sea of death”
    “We all live in an electronic sea of death, an electronic sea of death, an electronic sea of death”

    “We all live in an electronic sea of death, an electronic sea of death, an electronic sea of death”
    “We all live in an electronic sea of death, an electronic sea of death, an electronic sea of death”

    (Repeat, Rinse, and SING IT up, YOU KNOW I’m Right, it bounces of something of a flat larger size, get’s absorbed by something the smaller wrong size, or travel’s forever in a straight line, what of this is it I SPEAK, why they are electronic waves you can’t even see!)

  6. “and some how charge you more” ==
    and some how charge you more, for all the juice

    donkey == ***

    Freely modify, as there is no official band (or at least I am not of any such band I made up on the fly for this post) called “the wormels” hahah great name though, now that I say this I Popped open a tab and I see the “Master Wormels” from germany. No I am not a Master Wormel. Hahaha < NO RELATION TO THEM. GOD BLESS THEM THOUGH!