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Wes Groleau

On 01-26-2013 20:11, wrote:
Here where I live in NJ they have electronic water meters buried at
the
street. The town does drive-bys to read them. It's much faster
as they don't even have to get out of the car or even come to
a stop.

Mine's in the basement near the floor. It amazes me that the signal
passes through eight inches of concrete with a rebar grid in it, then
through twenty feet of gravelly clay, four feet of air, and the metal
body of a van, yet is powered by something that never needs its
batteries changed.

While my Sprint WiFi-enabled cell phone couldn't maintain a connection
with thirty inches of air between it and the WiFi router.

--
Wes Groleau

€œStatistics are like bikinis.
What they reveal is suggestive,
but what they conceal is vital.€
€” Aaron Levenstein