Electricity meters to be hooked up to the Internet

By year's end residents of a neighborhood in Dneprodzerzhinsk, Ukraine, will be able to monitor their electricity usage via the Internet. The first residential building has been already connected to the system. Information about current meter readings and monthly electricity usage will be available to both consumers and dispatchers. This will eliminate the need for controllers to visit households and check meter readings. The experiment will end next year. Depending on the results, the program may be implemented in other areas of the region. It is believed that this accounting system will make it possible to automatically prepare electricity bills, ruling out any errors. The likelihood of the system's vulnerability to hacker attacks has not been discussed yet.