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But will the lender believe in the detail the company puts out? .......I doubt they would be that daft. Where are we with the end of year figures?

Sim not similar......spellcheckers!!!

Hi Tony. No not an engineer for one of the companies but an engineer yes. The tower shown in the front page is just symbolic of a comms infrastructure I would say. If you read from about page 6 onwards it details the issues.
My point is the meter installs are no different. The guys that fit these will not get into the depths of the software. I had a smets 1 fitted about 6 months ago and the guy wasn't even an electrician or gas engineer, he just did the basic gas Safe / electrical safety training certificate, asked me to witness him testing the gas and sign for it. He did no electrical safety checks just changed the meter and reconnected the meter tails. I had to turn everything in the house off while he did this before he switched back on. My meter has a similar inside that being the case in my experience this could easily be reprogrammed if you change suppliers to communicate with the new supplier. Smets 1 meters may be able to have a firmware upgrade as well which I think is suggested in the document.
Reading through the document it does also suggest that they are trying to work on an upgrade to allow the Smets 1 to become compatible. The document is very recent and worth the read.
By the way, in my view the meter was and is a waste of time, haven't used the indoor hub and fail to see how it will save me anything other than reading the meter!
Hope this all helps, Jake.

<br />https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.nao.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Rolling-out-smart-meters-Summary.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwiVj_KwrqffAhVRURUIHT6HDOoQFjABegQIChAB&usg=AOvVaw3TzeMu9k2rT6UaN5l7BAap&cshid=1545067250539<br />Tony take a look at this document from the National audit Office. These are the only facts relevant as to timescales and feasibility in my view.

Hi Tony . A meter is a meter....feed in , feed out and safety checked. The engineers will already be Gas Safe / Trained in Electrical Safety ( not necessarily electricians) The only other training will be for the new Comms which will no doubt be a case of call the Central Monitoring Station to check Comms are working. Any trading will be absolutely minimal to those engineers akready installing Smets 1.

So they haven't "started" they are just training the engineers. To do what? Fitting a Smets 1 or 2 meter is essentially the same.

* again not avian although this is looking like a Dodo

I thought all he was missing was he clown out big shoes and water squirtinv flower lol. How many got caught avian with the spike. You can read this like a one page pamphlet.

Knowing this lot probably £1 per licence lol

A read of this reflects how things carry on in India. If this is anything to go by India orders should arrive sometime around the turn of the century!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/twilight_of_the_taj

"Retreat" makes it sound like some sort of cult lol , amazingly some here believe all this nonsense and bull5hit.

https://ippairetreat.com/IPPAI_Power_Awards2016.aspx Cc are associate sponsors . Not sure what all the fuss is about.

As one of the associate sponsors why don't they just give themselves the award in Cambridge,?....... absolute joke

Hi Tony . Honest answer is no idea! It does seem however Trilliant have some sort of Omni alternative ?

No problem Colour, now waiting for the slap down! I try to be factual and am fortunate to have had an awful lot of experience with similar solutions for security monitoring. It does seem Trilliant have had their own Omni type solution for some time. If there are only Silver Spring and Trilliant as direct competitors (which I doubt) I guess only time will tell.

Hi LTI . I am sure they are aware of their competitors but working with them? I would have doubts around that , particularly as Trilliant seem alresdy to have a working agnostic software solution. But who knows?

Hi Colour judging by the article it seems so. CC seem to think they are the messiahs with the only magic solution.
Like I said a long time back agnostic software platforms have been around for security systems monitoring for years. The Monitoring station install the software on the server then any manufacturers system can be monitored.

The only caveat is that the various equipment manufacturers bed to release the relevant info to the software provider.

Within the security industry there was some pushback as the manufacturers of the equipment being installed in the field wanted to try and keep their kit closed protocol and charge accordingly when users were tied in. They soon realised end users started going with open protocol kit due to the advantages of flexibility and cost.
Aimho hope it helps

Thanks LTI . Piece on BBC news this morning, worth a watch.

Like I said a while back CC are not the only ones with an agnostic software solution. https://trilliant.com/solutions/advanced-metering-infrastructure-ami/

And I think you will find they are already involved in the UK rollout.
https://www.smart-energy.com/industry-sectors/data_analytics/trilliant-uk-smart-meters/

But how many orders and real cash have come from these over the years Tony? You can read this lot like a one page pamphlet.