These smart meters will still work as energy meters and thermostats, it’s just the connectivity and ‘smart’ bits that will go offline.
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itsonlygeorge@reddthat.com 8 months ago
This is called planned obsolescence. Thermostats from the 70’s still work today because they are analog. Anything digital intrinsically has a shelf life, it will eventually stop working because it is old and unsupported. Anyone use a 56k modem anymore? Nope, that shit is long gone even though the modem itself might still be functional.
acoustics_guy@lemmy.world 8 months ago
leaskovski@kbin.social 8 months ago
I'm sorry, but what have thermostats got to do with this? I thought this was just impacting meters?
HumanPenguin@feddit.uk 8 months ago
Yes to planned obsolescence. But it is in no way a result od digital. Heck the 1ss G was analog mobile phones. It is to do with the desire or need to link things together. Yes if you still have a 56k modem (i do somewhere) all it will still work. That may change when all phonelines go IP. But w are a good few years from that. But again it is the links that are removed by society. Not in anyway a element of digital tech. But instead people and well capitalism.
Even if IP lines failed to support the afsk used in old modems. You and I could very much build our own analogue lines (assuming we owned the land between) and communicate from PC to PC. The tech very much still works just like the analog stuff.
Mex@feddit.uk 8 months ago
This is not planned obsolescence it’s just bad planning, and bad project definitions from the goverment that allowed this to happen.