他在那儿读电表。
那个电表上的度数是多少？
如果大部分电表损坏，将会发生什么？
但智能电表仅仅是第一步。
目前市面上已经出现了几种品牌的智能电表。
There are already several brands of smart meter on the market.
电表对大多数人来说不过是平凡无奇的设备。
智能电表构成了“网状网络”，以此转发读数。
Smart power meters form "mesh networks" to relay their readings.
组成智能电网的智能电表和其他装置要价不菲。
Smart meters and other gear needed to make grids more intelligent will not come cheap.
由公用事业公司安装的智能电表就是一个例子。
Smart meters being installed by utility companies are one example.
这项技术可以每小时处理数以百万计的电表读数。
Its technology can process millions of electric meter readings every hour.
即使是在技术之都的加利福尼亚，人们都开始排斥智能电表了。
Even in technophile California people have started to resist smart meters.
同样重要的是，诸如智能电表这样的东西的标准需要被制定出来。
Equally important, standards for such things as smart meters need to be sorted out.
在交通运输领域，相当于一块智能电表的是汽车上的一个车载单元。
In transport the equivalent of a smart meter is a vehicle's on-board unit.
如果数百万的电表每小时向系统发送一次使用数据，电网会做何反应？
How will the grid respond if millions of meters fire off hourly usage data into the system?
智能电表不仅能使电力公司获得更多控制，也使它们控制起来更灵活。
As well as giving utilities more control, smart meters also give them more flexibility.
“我们不能给用户安装好智能电表，就马上要消费者去买单，”他讲道。
"We did not just put in smart meters and ask consumers to pay for them," he says.
这样的攻击可能造成电表与供电设施之间通信的中断——最终造成断电。
Such an attack could result in loss of communication between the utility and meters-and the subsequent denial of power to your home or business.
智能电表的主要目的是降低峰值负荷，从而使电厂能够降低峰值发电功率。
The main objective of smart power meters is to lower the peak load and thus enable utilities to keep down their peak generating capacity.
但最近几年，智能电表已经相当便宜，可以更广泛地进行安装了。
But in recent years they have become cheap enough for wider deployment.
伊利诺斯监督管理委员会批准在2009年安装多达200000只智能电表。
Illinois's regulatory commission approved the installation of up to 200, 000 smart meters in 2009.
帕西尼公司的力度感应静电表面驱动技术在这一问题上也开始发挥作用。
Pacinian's "force sensing" electrostatic surface actuation technology comes into play here as well.
Enel打算在其运营的海外市场如西班牙和罗马尼亚也推广智能电表。
Enel plans to install them in other countries where it operates, such as Spain and Romania.
例如，居民房屋和公寓内的智能电表业的大量就业机会将降低国内消耗量。
For example, domestic consumption could be cut by the large-scale employment of smart meters in houses and flats.
那么，这就很奇怪了，人人都偏爱与智能电表或正在实施的设备没有多大不同的移动器具。
It is odd, then, that everybody loves mobile devices, which are not that different from smart meters or on-board units.
许多分析家认为，有了智能电表的帮助，按小时甚至分钟制定电价即将成为现实。
Many analysts believe that power prices that vary hour by hour or even minute by minute, abetted by smart meters, are the shape of things to come.
许多分析家认为，有了智能电表的帮助，按小时甚至分钟制定电价即将成为现实。
Many analysts believe that power prices that vary hour by hour or even minute by minute, abetted by smart meters, are the shape of things to come.
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