As power grids become cleverer, smart-meter apps are likely to appear.
For example, reading Vergil's Aeneid in Latin is a different experience from reading the same text in translation; the meter, clever word usage, and feeling of Vergil's writing is much more effective in the Latin version than in translations.
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There are quite a variety, from smart meters to clever software, and a large and rapidly growing constellation of small and large companies entering the fray, all in a race to be the leaders, or at least major players in the enormous market to add communications, sensors, computing and software muscle of the digital age to enable a 21st-century electrical age.
An explanation of this is beyond the scope of this article; it's enough to say that matrix metering is very clever and works well enough most of the time under most conditions.
Economists explain this business model as a clever way for companies to "meter" their customers, charging them according to use.
Smart meters are an essential ingredient in developing a low-carbon future - encouraging householders to cut energy waste and save on bills (Boxing clever: every UK household may get smart meter for gas and electricity, 12 May).
The industrious Dutch have strong enough dikes and clever enough engineering to survive a one meter rise in the oceans, even though two-thirds of their country lies below sea level.
They are designed to look like a battery meter, and the result is a clever, though subtle nod to the e-tron's electric power plant.
