{"id":4389,"date":"2009-05-17T10:56:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-17T14:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=4389"},"modified":"2009-05-31T16:19:05","modified_gmt":"2009-05-31T20:19:05","slug":"smarter-meter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/17\/smarter-meter\/","title":{"rendered":"smarter meter"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just signed up for Toronto Hydro<\/a>‘s Time-of-Use (TOU) Metering<\/a> programme. While it was mentioned in this month’s PowerWISE (hey, am I the only one who reads the info inserts that comes with their bill?), it doesn’t seem to have been officially launched.\u00c2\u00a0 On first look, it’s fairly nifty (click the image for a full-sized view):
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\nSince I’m a Bullfrog<\/a> customer, I don’t think I get charged TOU rates (hey, it’d be nice; actually, if coupled to current capacity, I’d make hay while the sun shines\/wind blows\/water flows …) but at least I get to see the data. I wonder if the front end is scriptable? I’d love to be able to track my usage day by day.<\/p>\n

(And to think, yesterday I was on the cusp of buying a Black & Decker Power Monitor<\/a>. If it had ethernet\/wireless\/bluetooth, I’d have been on it like an X<\/em> on a Thing That X Likes<\/em>. It looks a bit complex to install.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I just signed up for Toronto Hydro‘s Time-of-Use (TOU) Metering programme. While it was mentioned in this month’s PowerWISE (hey, am I the only one who reads the info inserts that comes with their bill?), it doesn’t seem to have been officially launched.\u00c2\u00a0 On first look, it’s fairly nifty (click the image for a full-sized […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[1566,912,1557,959,43,1565],"class_list":["post-4389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wagdaiyf","tag-electricity","tag-hydro","tag-meter","tag-smart_meter","tag-toronto","tag-tou"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-18N","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4389"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4416,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4389\/revisions\/4416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}