Curious box enclosing meter, with electronics

[SJD]

Can anyone cast some light on a curious meter I came across today.

The old-style meter has a circuit board fitted on top, and the whole lot enclosed with a Perspex cover, with meter seals at each corner to prevent access. See photo below (hopefully).

What is this for?

I'll try to add a close-up of part of the board in another post.

 

[buzzlightyear]

it could be the first smart test meter

So perhaps some early kind of "smart" meter after all

I maybe wright.

 

[telectrix]

I maybe wright.

orville, wilbur, or wheel?

 

[Sparksaflyin]

Probably the meter kept being bypassed or tampered and that's to alarm or record any interference.
I expect the current bill payer could probably get it removed.

I’d have to agree with this comment. Looks like a tamper.

 

[buzzlightyear]

I’d have to agree with this comment. Looks like a tamper

what bell ! lol some mothers do have them.

 

[Sparksaflyin]

what bell ! lol some mothers do have them.

Explain.........

 

[buzzlightyear]

Explain.........

the meter is the original smart meter tele switching .

 

[Sparksaflyin]

the meter is the original smart meter tele switching .

Ten points for you smart ---! Clever and clearly very modest how can you be so sure it’s an original smart meter?

 

[buzzlightyear]

Ten points for you smart ---! Clever and clearly very modest how can you be so sure it’s an original smart meter?

I have been round the block a bit.

 

[Lucien Nunes]

I don't think it's 'smart', just a telemetry interface for remote reading. There's a pulse output terminal on the meter at 6Wh/pulse, which the board totalises and transmits. It does enable tamper detection as the mechanical total should equal the electronic total. I am not sure whether the transmitter itself is present.

 

[Sparksaflyin]

I have been round the block a bit.

I’m sure you have mate but that’s not exactly a very convincing answer not sure you’d get it passed a judge and jury. You may as well have just poked your tongue out, waved your hands about aside your head and said ner ner

 

[SJD]

I don't think it's 'smart', just a telemetry interface for remote reading. There's a pulse output terminal on the meter at 6Wh/pulse, which the board totalises and transmits. It does enable tamper detection as the mechanical total should equal the electronic total. I am not sure whether the transmitter itself is present.

So in an urban estate, from what was one of the "social" units that the developers had to include, where would the telemetry be received?

And do you think this is more likely as a tamper deterrent, rather than a need to read remotely.

 

[Lucien Nunes]

I would imagine it was fitted to monitor suspicious activity or where there were ongoing access problems. Perhaps it could be interrogated from outside the property? I don't think it's GSM.

 

[buzzlightyear]

where would the telemetry be received

cop shop,, you could ring the DNO and ask them before you take it apart.

 

[Sparksaflyin]

So in an urban estate, from what was one of the "social" units that the developers had to include, where would the telemetry be received?

And do you think this is more likely as a tamper deterrent, rather than a need to read remotely.

So just so I can be sure........ it’s a tamper like was stated earlier?

 

[Sparksaflyin]

And no I’m not taking the credit! I just agreed......