I am starting a new blog on my quest to find out which standard is the future of Home Automation. Zigbee or Z-wave (or neither). I have started off the blog with this initial post on my experience getting zigbee smart meters installed from British Gas. I thought it may be of interest over here at OpenEnergyMonitoy.org: Following quite a bit of pestering and waiting I eventually managed to persuade British Gas to swap out my archaic Electricity and Gas meters for the latest 'Phase 3' Smart Meters. Hello Trystan, Unfortunately not! Following the above post, I subsequently wrote a second post about my experience after Smart Meter installation and my mission to get energy usage stats out of my smart meters: It would seem that at (least for now) the new Smart Meters from British Gas are a bit of a closed system where only British Gas can access 'my' stats.

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Access the the smart meters via Zigbee is blocked for 'security reasons', all that is offered to the consumer is the In-home Display device (which to be honest is a 5 min wonder with no way of getting at the real data). There are promises of an iPhone app but even this will only get the stats from British Gas's servers (rather than directly from the meters in my house). I don't know if the government should put more pressure on British Gas to allow consumers access to their own data. Even though I have so called 'smart meters' I may have to revert back to older techniques (pulse counting, physically noting readings) to monitor my Electricity and Gas usage (which defeats the point!). In the Netherlands those smartmeters (electricity & gas)are going to be deployed nationwide (over a period of some 7 or 8 years I believe) starting next year.