Smart Meter Hacking

[Oxo]

From your pavement, at your domestic property entrance you will have a terminated joint, Known as a branch kit

This will have a seperate cable, called "Concentric cable" Only has a Live & Earth conducter inside it and is 25mm diameter

The connections are filled with an epoxy resin to seal the joint from moisture and can be buried after just 45 minutes setting.

 

Concentric is fairly new is it not?

[james.wilson]

pse

I know you need to justify that but, just so you know

 

it begins with F

 

ends in ail

[PSE]

  Hey ?   Justify what    

[PSE]

Concentric is fairly new is it not?

 

Single phase concentric has been around for many years, Old conductor sheath was red, new harmonised colour is brown.

 

Here is the old stuff, Pre March 2006, After this date the colour changed 

http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u259/spook_040/cutout-close.jpg

[james.wilson]

  Hey ?   Justify what    

wasn't so much justify but I didn't get your reply.

[Oxo]

Just never seen a lot until recently.

[arfur mo]

Nar . . . Not at all mate,

Just thought I would contribute something that people may find interesting..

Plus, I am bored sitting here in the office, got nowt else to do till the phone rings.

i thought that a very interesting post,

from watching the Police Docs they often detect cannabis factories from the air with thermal imaging, as those houses really show out. some forces seem to have ground equipment.

but with all that tech, it's often simply a coppers sense of smell arousing suspicion.

[Rulland]

It has to be noted that it's only in a very small minority of cases where electricity is being obtained by underhand means that the actuall property kilowatt loading increases significantly.

The majority that have been caught have purely done it because they cannot afford the extortionate prices that the supliers charge, and as thus tend to use around the normal amount.

[arfur mo]

to me talking about theft bypassing the readings, we seem to be missing a far more worrying issue mentioned.

because of roll out cost the devices have to be cheap, by using this tech and cheaper insecure comms, the utility co's are opening a back door way to cause industrial espionage, even hacking the util co's to cause disruption by mischievous, criminal or terrorists elements.

[cybergibbons]

What Rulland says is very true - well over 99% of meter bypass is done by ordinary householders. 

 

There isn't really anything fancy in most local substations to detect higher than usual consumption. Often there isn't any metering equipment at all outside of a basic meter on the infeed. Temporary equipment can be installed though, but it's for diagnosing problems like an intermittent short in an underground cable.

 

Nearly everything is caught through back-end auditing and meter readings. As far as I know, the electricity company is rarely involved in tracking down cannabis factories, it's just not technically easy or even worth it for them.

 

Smart meters will make bypass much harder. Commonly, people bypassing meters will un-bypass them for a couple of days a month so there is some bill, just low. A smart meter will see this odd pattern.