The [Interesting Facts] are coming from INSIDE THE HOUSE

Indie Winter

Good luck, 47.

djmitchella

Looking those up was how I went from "I wonder what that plane's doing" to "okay, who's it registered to", to finding out that our gas meters get read, not by someone coming round and writing down the numbers from the meter, or by some walking by with a scanner, or by a car driving by with a scanner -- it's a plane flying overhead.

Jedoc

Must be some mean dogs in your town.

Rhesus Positive

Every house has a massive LED display on the roof

djmitchella

https://www.westernenergy.org/news-resources/aerial-amr/ has more details -- I guess one advantage of flying overhead is that there's fewer obstacles between the meter and a plane, whereas driving along a road there can be trees, other buildings, parked cars, etc that make the radio signal harder to pick up.