In just a few years, every door lock, card reader, video camera, vehicle, power meter, and light switch will have an IP address — at least in the business world.

数年之内，至少在商业领域，每一个门锁，每一个读卡器，每一个摄像头，电表，甚至是电灯开关都会被赋予一个IP地址。

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Now, to get rid of the progress meter, which adds unnecessary information to the timeline, add the -s switch.

现在，去掉进度条，因为它为timeline增加了不必要的信息，然后添加- s开关。

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Energy companies welcomed the switch, which will reduce their running costs by making meter readers obsolete and eliminating the customer service time spent on dealing with estimated bills.

能源公司欢迎转用智能表，因为智能表无需抄表员，也无需顾客花费时间处理估算账单，从而能够削减他们的运营成本。

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At first anyone wanting to switch supplier had to buy an expensive meter and pay for access to the wholesale market.

ECONOMIST: Electricity

Each day he clamped a Lange V9 ski boot onto the metal stem of a 2.5-meter-high Instron compression machine and flipped the power switch.

FORBES: Revenge of the nerds

But for computing to be bought and sold as a utility, firms must be able to switch vendors, to do it for all their computing functions, and with meter-based pricing.

ECONOMIST: The future of computing