Got a small notice about this a while back, and then confronted the guy outside who installed thing on my home's power box, making sure to stay civil of course. Want to know the community's thoughts on these things since the stuff I find online, beyond Wiki and standard crap, appears to be conspiracy theorist material worthy of a movie. Only a few legitimate points have been brought up concerning a Wi-fi signal coming from the meters for remote access, and the power company's ability to blip off your power at intermittent times when they say it’s for “helping regulate power, reducing cost to the consumer.”

Only reason I partly believe this is due to a strange, intermittent signal that pops up from time to time I’ve detected. It could be a person setting up their router for the first time it seems strange to have it blip out as soon as I detect it.

Heard the conspiracy about theives using them to determine if a person is home or not?

I'll install a lock box over my meter before they put one of them on my house. Jersey Central Power and Light is a bunch of crooks without them I can only imagine what they'll be like with them.

Welcome Orwellian society. Where the government knows everything about you and have absolute control. And if you should protest? Well, then you′re considered a criminal and can be easily locked away.

Whoa man we just jumped from power leeching to 1984 is upon us! Lets take it back a notch shall we, don't recall anything about power companies in that book...