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Utilities' smart meters save money, but erode privacy

By Andrew Maykuth Inquirer Staff Writer Those new smart meters Peco Energy Co. and other utilities will install soon are being touted as money-savers that will give customers more control over their electric bills. "The drive to retool the United States' electricity generation and distribution networks may inadvertently raise a monster with unparalleled abilities to invade residential privacy," Elias Leake Quinn, a research analyst at the Center for Energy and Environmental Security in Boulder, Colo., wrote in a recent paper on smart meters. But because they capture so much information, the meters also can reveal intimate details about activity inside a customer's house: when they are home; when they sleep; when they eat. To continue reading this interesting article from the Philadelphia Inquirer, click here.

Full post as published by The Trade Secrets Vault on September 06, 2009 (boomark / email).