Problem with my gas meter reader

[RoadToad]

Interesting idea, a GPS on a power meter. Well, I guess if someone stole the meter, they'd know where it went. I don't see what other purpose one would serve. I mean, they already know where your house is, right?

[harryprocraft]

it is amazing how fast LG&E reacted to my complaint with the energy commission! it took 7 to 10 days to get the meter re-read last month, LG&E recieved my complaint yesterday and is sending an accuracy superviser to re-read and investigate! either it was frankforts involvement or it was the wave 3 troubleshooter whom i also contacted. but IF it fixes the problem OH WELL, no company wants bad press!!

I have heard of the drive by readers too, my question is with some houses close enough together to spit on how can they not get it screwed up??? I know that LG&E uses some sort of sub-contractor to read meters! possibly different company different quality guidelines all the while the consumer suffers! thanks for all your replys and next month we will see if the problem is really fixed!

[RoadToad]

I have heard of the drive by readers too, my question is with some houses close enough together to spit on how can they not get it screwed up???

The way they would keep them straight is like ElectricSLT said, part of what it transmits is an ID number that is unique to each house. I'm not familiar with the system, but I imagine it works like the MAC address of a computer network card. No two of them in the world are the same (supposedly), and each individual packet of data that gets sent contains that address. So no matter what direction the transmission comes from, it's "tagged" with that number (a string of hexadecimal characters), so there's no confusion about which house it came from.