This is fascinating and really well explained. Love this type of research.

Thank you! This is for the electronics community who defend people and help people.

Our bills went up almost immediately after we had our meter changed from the mechanical dial type. I was convinced that the meters must be recording the current peaks which occur during the first few ms of an appliance being turned on, which were previously damped by the mechanical style meter due to the inertia of the disc. So I contacted Honeywell who manufactured the meters at the time and they confirmed that the meters do record the initial peaks which can cumulatively add more to your bill. Fortunately they have software "damping", but the amount recorded is adjustable by the network/installer (via software and infra-red comms interface). So I guess if all refrigerators and pumps etc incorporated a "soft start" it might help?

Didnt know there was a big interest in metering from the public . I work as a meter engineer and its pretty cool that people talk about this stuff

It takes one to know one and you know exactly what is going on. Fantastic information. Thank you for the content!

Great job - thanks for sharing... cool insights! 👏

Great clarity and exposition on topic

I'm amazed at what you're doing, truly blown away!

Great stuff!

Very cool my dude

Excellent ! 😁

Fascinating - really pleased I found you. I would like to be able to see my readings as my meters won't - no home display etc. Gas not syncing so have to read myself. Rubbish!

wow ! great job

the original smart meters had a zigbee chip installed to monitor appliance usage. appliance companies couldn't agree on a language to use, so they stopped installing the chips in them. most power companies won't use the newer meters that scan the load variants because of the cost and the simple fact that it does them no good knowing what appliance is on. only your total usage and, if you're a heavy or industrial place, the overall demand / power factor of your building. those directly affect the grid and bottom line. The Zigbee was for the end user only, so the customer would be able to easier diagnose failing appliances. You are correct in your assumption about the sporadic communications, the packets are small that are sent to the hub, but bandwidth is still bandwidth. Most residential meters communicate once every hour, commercial once every 15 minutes.

In 3 Phase Digital meter, if we have 1 phase directly from pole but neutral is via meter. Will this neutral able to capture load??? Neutral can understand the load or consume units? Pls reply

Your video must be really good, youtube hates it.

The reason people buy meters on ebay is so they can monitor power usage of part of their own system or rv parks where each rv is metered and charged for their own power usage. Some people also sublet power to a apartment or studio in their own home

Explain to me why pence goes missing all the time. The meter tells me it requires 17 pound to restore the power but when I put 17 on it then asked for another coupe of pound

So if I use a cell jammer I can stop them from discounting my electicity

The Faraday cage is like a tin box deflecting all emf. So, my question is why use it when disconnecting the smart electronics?

There are some power companies that allow you to use your own meter and more commonly for back feeding and something like sharing power you might have your own meter to know how much is being used so you can charge them for their portion

Anyone know how to disable the motor that moves the arms inside the FOCUS RXRe-SD? Does it have a motor and arms inside? For research purposes I want to disable the ability to turn power on/off remotely

Hi. Nice to meet you and the rest who stops by. Since yesterday im looking in to the smart meters. This is is quite a nice topic and you are quite alone in this topic.... I`m glad your here and hopefully i will learn few thinks. BTW im not eally in to the revers engineering. Not that I don`t like it. But I`m not that smart... Do you have anymore videos or tutorials about how to connect to this smart meters?

Yep just saw a new little "box" stuck onto the side of my apartment building 2 days ago... Says SENSUS on front... I open the cover which was only held in place by 2 plastic tabs. Inside it says SENSUS, Raleigh NC and all sorts of FCC wording and megahertz and all that stuff.... Scary stuff to understand exactly what they have in store for all of us Yet nobody seems to give a hoot!

Every new solar system in the UK seems to connect to the internet and send usage data to somewhere so you can watch it on your phone. They are all manufactured in China

Interesting. Very👍

I love the wiki idea! Can you add the faraday cage to the tools section of the wiki?

If you bypass the meter with a jumper will the meter know and inform the company. Or is it best to jump from main power lines to the back side of your main breaker. Leaving breaker off so it won't back feed to meter?

Do you have any model numbers for these smart meters which can detect individual appliances? I would like to do some more research into them.

Removal of the data SIM maybe. GPRS sin in a wifi extender on your boat or camper??

So I could jam the frecuency it uses to comunicate, there fore they can’t cut off the power. (I May have bad grammar, English its not my first language )

If my meter turns off. How would I turn it back on?

Still have a good old fashioned mechanical meter here.

They put in new meter, they replaced digital with digital ,usually take readings self, but yesterday there were 2 brown outs after meter reading, daily usage around 7 kwh,but today was 12

Shame they have instant information on when your refrigerator goes on and off.... Perhaps some kind of bunching could be done that gathers load only per hour then send that so anything turning on and off is obscured? How well do smart meters work if you have an isolation transformer between the meter and your panel?

The Bob Ross of the elecy meter fiddle

I think people are interested because utilities can be costly and want to reduce their outgoings. I recently revamped my flat. I had to turn off my tiny British fridge-freezer (undercounter) as l had a new one coming. I actually dont use it only to keep milk fresh but because the nilk l buy is UHT it doesn't even need to be cooled to stay fresh. I just happened to leave it switched off. Then l got my electric bill which was £25! MY BILLS ARE NORMALLY £400-580! I was sooo shocked now l don't use it - the new kitchen looks pretty enough with it without it being switched on. If l wait long enough (6 bills) my new kitchen will have paid for itself LOL l'm so chuffed. I just had to share this with you. It's because the compressor is on 24-7 🤠 l wish l'd known this 20 years ago 😓😪 *Great vids btw.*

I just need to know an easy way to change my smart netwr so it disnt record as many kwh

Where i can see more about that appliances electrical finger print you showed at 4:40?

The electric companies should not be talking about meter tampering. There are manipulating the smart meters remotely. Does anyone consider that smart meter allows the power company to speed up your meter anytime they want. That is why alot of people are saying that smart meters are reading more or faster. Someone should prove that.

Is this just for specific brand? I have a FlexNet meter

I have single phase as i live in a residential area. However i purchased an old lathe that requires 3 phase 208v. Do ya think they know i have that? And how do u figure that?

I would love to capture the information leaving my meter.

Is a metal garbage can a Faraday cage? Thx

what movie is that clip from? (2:58)

How do I talk to you privately, I am not an engineer but I have a problem with my prepaid meter

found your video interesting. I suspect someone is stealing electricity from me, as my bills have quadrupled unexpectedly. Would the Electric company be able to see the grid to advise me on what is making the usage so high?

I sure am glad those weren't around when I was a kid with a bb gun 😂

I have an inline USI tracker on mine. In the past I have reported faulty and fraudulent numbers to the IURC . Everyone should keep an eye on their numbers. These companies skim and pad the numbers every millisecond of every day.

I need to pull my smart meter, will the poco know I pulled it?

Awesome topic. Are you going to use bemasher stuff or smth else?

I just want to how to make a smart meter .pin to pin

So when's your defcon talk

Nice try of learning what my appliances are, what about my computer that changes the input power that it needs (In W - Watts) all the time and is not constantly drawing the same current? Or what about my random motor capacitive dropper circuits? You will never know what I have plugged in

Hi can they you turn one off by runnig a shutdown code on anothere one? I know the Companys here can do it. But cud we hack them my guess is yes. Im from Norway. We got these 5-6 years back O refused. And tell the Company its stupid and just for them. Also we there inside here to in small houses. I and i think that it's my choice to be near that ams box everyday. Hater these wood love to prove that we cud turn then off.

What does a magnet do to a running meter

Can I pull a smart meter then reinstall without a problem

Time to take it all off grid. The extra hundred or 2 a month is worth the pivate security

I purchased a smart meter on e bay about a year ago. They are obsolete models.

An RV park might buy meters.

900mhz. I can harvest that as well.

Nice Jail Time with Bubba for that! Enjoy!

This collection of information beyond the demarcation point is a violation of privacy. There must be a device other than power conditioners that mask the devices used in one's home... noise generators?.... any ideas?

Is there a way to defend it from other hackers?

I am running a 910Mhz high power station from my house up on a 100ft tower 24/7/365. They are on their way to install those meters in the area. I bet they will not work very well in this neighborhood. Since those meters are part 15 certified, they can't cause any interference to licensed services and have no protection from interference from licensed services. My signal is omni directional and with 40Kw ERP fully licensed. I pity smart meters in the area lol.

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hi, video interesting, i have investigated, i cached them - how the job going on - smart meter from the mechanical meter nothing different they rolling equal, but they monitoring voltage, so they push voltage 246v, when everyone after work home they increase to 253v, that is how bill goes up after replaced smart meter, someone cheating on you rip off, they have to monitor voltage to avoid burn your house over voltage. there schema is 230v allowed + - 10%, 23v minus or plus, so between 207v and 253v they can play up but they never drop that low as you could safe money. to sew them to small claim court wont be successful. if you seen voltage optimisation unit cost 400£ could reduce 10% - it is good but need to plug this unit before smart meter to safe money. i thinking call to shop who selling optimisation unit ask them how to get permision to plug before smart meter, if not allowed then what is point to buy them

How nice when will we be well done?

Ddosing power meters

Matilda cannot hide you!..... use power conditioners for everything! It changes the signatures

Our rich Prime donna electrical supplier got a huge donation to speed up the change over to smart meters maybe 12 years ago. Still waiting for promise that residential customers would be able to acess thier smart meters to read power usage. Last liars are still working on it.

Drive the power company crazy and cover your meter with a RF cloth, just remove it once a month to allow it, to get your billing.

I just saw your vedio on tik tok . I cam strictly to yourube so i can fin a way to hack those devices

I live in a 900 square feet apartment and my bill is $200 I have nothing on except my a/c and FPL says too bad we don’t know why it’s this high and we don’t care

Sure I'm going to copy and paste someone's comment and I'd like to see what you think about it we're having a big discussion in North Mississippi about smart meters and health and the comment I'm going to paste the man says that they cannot tell what kind of appliances are being used and I was under the impression that they can would you please read his following comment and let me know what you think thank you sir and I enjoy your channel "It is impossible to make any reasonable comparison to your neighbor's electric bill since there are many factors which impact each individual bill such as insulation. type of windows and doors, lifestyle, etc. Also the "Smart Meters" measure the total energy used and transmits that information to the utility, HSUD in my case. I does not have any way to know what devises are using the energy at any one time. You can have such systems added to your home but the Smart Meter is not such a device."

Retired meter installer these meters have a high failure rate there cheaply made and only last a few years before they fail

I wonder how many people are paying their neighbors electric bill unknowingly ?

They know when you go to bed or are out of town I don't believe they know WHAt your using no way to tell the difference between a fan or a lamp.

Companies can manipulate the meters. Does anyone consider that smart meter allows the power company to speed up your meter! That is why alot of people are saying the smart meters are reading more or faster.

Hello .. how can Hack my meter

nit for the average home owner.

Can’t you just hack the meter to show less usage reported to the grid. Instead of all this solar stuff being shoved on us.

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wow ur a god, you need tro get on 5g n shit. be more infoermed ppl n kless alex jones lol sick thio

I hate my SMART meter and I hate my power company. My bill is 3 times higher than it should be, it flips my breaker if I try running my toaster and microwave at the same time and, it emits way too much emf, causing pulsed hits which have caused some health issues... They give the runaround when asking to have it removed. They've lied to people in the past and charge them for a non SMART meter, that's still SMART SMART= Secret Militarized Armaments in Residential Technology SMART devices are weapons.

It feels like an invasion of privacy for them to be able to figure out what kind of electrical devices are being run, when they run, how often, and all that. Should be able to opt out or something.

hey guys, any info on how you can hack a smart power meter? Thanks.