I am in favor of technology that is not founded on fraudulent claims.  The article is about electric utility meters and not "smart" water meters, but hey the smart water meters have problems too.  Anyone can do their own research on that subject. Here is one example, "Doublespeak: Chicago Suburb Claims Smart Water Meters Don’t Overcharge. “They Misrecord.”  https://smartgridawareness.org/2015/06/05/chicago-suburb-smart-water-meters-misrecord/.   Smart water meter problems:  Documented over-billing, water leakage destroying circuitry, destroying good paying jobs with cheap plastic meters that  are also plagued by early obsolescence.  Comments on smart water meters are not discrediting  what was said by informed citizens who have done their homework on the downsides of wireless electric meters and are pitted against a multi-billion dollar industry out to mislead the public with crisis communication specialists' propaganda statements that many not doing the deep research needed, believe.