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.

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所以，当全世界的发明家们只在灯泡上做文章的时候，他却构想出了一幅宏观蓝图——一个包含了发电机、电表、电线和变电站在内的完整网络。

So, while inventors around the world worked only on the bulb, he conceived an entire network of generators, meters, transmission lines, and substations.

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比如，植入了恶意代码的电表，能够扰乱输电网络——就像电脑的“僵尸网络”能够扰乱因特网一样。

Smart meters injected with malware, for instance, could disrupt the grid just as networks of PC botnets-home computers hijacked by viruses-now disrupt the Internet.

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