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RE: Daily Dose of Sultnpapper 06/05/18> Can I get a “do over” please…?
I hope that you have better luck the rest of the week! Power outages are so common here they are almost normal. And we don't have smart meters yet. They are threatening to do so but I think money is a big issue for the changeover...
Some people claim smart meters have all kinds of negative effects on the human body, I don't know if that is true or just a bunch of BS, but if they were supposed to be able to alert a power outage it clearly did as the woman was able to see that we were without power when I called, but we were told it would be "proactive" since it would be monitored and that there might be times when we would experience a power outage and not even know it, since they wouldn't be waiting on a call, they would already have the information.
That clearly didn't happen in our case, who ever is in charge of the monitoring department needs to have a serious talk with the staff. They had nine hours to detect the problem from when it went out until I called it in. I did get a good nights sleep that night, I haven't since then though.
I don't think that the smart meters are so smart. I believe that they are only as good as the people that program them. And we all know how well that turns out...
Or the people that read the reports, programming is very important for sure, but if someone doesn't read the info and react nothing happens. Maybe the programmers need to go back in and add the part that automatically generates the work order for the repair crews, instead of leaving that up to another human that isn't paying attention.
Now, that is an idea!