Students test security of utility's Automatic Meter Reading - wistv.com - Columbia, South Carolina |

 Jennifer Emert
"So we actually did set up an eavesdropper, or a sniffer, tried to find out how many meters we can receive," said Xu.  "So at one single spot we were able to receive almost 500 meter readings."
They gathered information from several homes over a week, randomly picked one house, and easily had the owners lifestyle.