Thanks, i had thought of that but it seems so venerable to hacks by just reverse engineering the firmware. -- -erastus Nairobi Kenya On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 6:27 PM, Bernard Mwagiru <bmwagiru@gmail.com> wrote:

By "data" I suppose you meant the prepay voucher numbers. No.That data is not transmitted via the power lines to some backend billing system via some "big" LAN.

The vouchers are generated by the backend which are translated by the Prepay meter to some units.

./bernard

On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 5:40 PM, gisho <gichuhie@gmail.com> wrote:

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Does anybody know how prepaid electricity by Kenya Power works? I envision they send the data via the same cable that caries power which in this case, its a big LAN.

can someone enlighten me please

-- -erastus Nairobi Kenya

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Wash, Think public private keys and pre authorised certificates. One of these days a key will leak, then the fun begins since they can't really run around updating them all. This would be one certificate you don't want to self sign and or not keep in a vault somewhere. So nothing goes over the. 'wire', just an algorithm on the end user unit does some fancy math. You can take a 'trace' on the wire in your house when loading. It's fun:-) no don't ask me how but if you take a longer look at the unit you can easily work on it. Gitau Sent from my iPad On 23 Apr 2012, at 19:06, Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com> wrote:

@Bernard,

Thanks for clarifying this. Even though I don't use prepaid, I always thought along the same lines as Gisho, and always wondered how it is that when you run out of units you'd still be able to reload on a supposedly dead link:-)

On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 18:27, Bernard Mwagiru <bmwagiru@gmail.com> wrote: By "data" I suppose you meant the prepay voucher numbers. No.That data is not transmitted via the power lines to some backend billing system via some "big" LAN.

The vouchers are generated by the backend which are translated by the Prepay meter to some units.

./bernard

On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 5:40 PM, gisho <gichuhie@gmail.com> wrote: Does anybody know how prepaid electricity by Kenya Power works? I envision they send the data via the same cable that caries power which in this case, its a big LAN.

can someone enlighten me please

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