smart meters and no phone signal

medalto

Im in a Stone-built 19C croft in rural Scotland , currently with Eco7 ( and EDF) in a 1970's installed cabled underfloor heating .Im getting a ASHP and want to take advantage of the ASHP tariffs .  The meter is in the  cupboard in the middle of the house. We only get a patchy mobile phone signal  on the windowsill at the front of the house. Elsewhere in the house the 2 feet thick stone walls ensure  there is no mobile signal.

When i get a smart meter 

-  with no signal it wont communicate with my supplier - currently EDF but likely to change . So i assume i;ll have to send them readings

- how will it be  (re)progammed  when i want to change tariffs

TIA

michaels

You can't have a TOU tariff unless your supplier can read your smart meter - it is extremely unfair imho

Rodders53

In Scotland you don't use the mobile network for connection to Smart Meters.  So mobile phone reception is irrelevant.

Instead you use Arqiva's dedicated UHF network for "the North" for the Wide Area Network.  https://www.smartme.co.uk/smets-2.html

That, being a relatively low frequency of 420 MHz approx can penetrate some buildings OK.  The installer should / will test reception of the signals during installation.

The alternative is to pay to relocate the meter into an external meter box with all that that will entail.

Talk to near neighbours to see if any are on smart meters?

FreeBear

Rodders53 said: The alternative is to pay to relocate the meter into an external meter box with all that that will entail.

A low cost alternative to try first is a passive repeater - Basically, an aerial mounted externally connected to another close to the meter comms hub. It needs careful construction of both aerials and a length of good quality low loss coax cable. The technique has been shown to work in some situations.