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Comment by mjochim

13 hours ago

Electric meters often blink a signal LED for every X kWh, so other devices can read the signal. I'm not sure if this is used for bidirectional communications, though.

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bigfatkitten  12 hours ago

No, but they also have a separate infrared interface for this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEC_62056

NegativeLatency  12 hours ago

Smart meters have a whole protocol

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