{"id":2349,"date":"2015-08-24T11:31:48","date_gmt":"2015-08-24T18:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cjr.ufv.ca\/?p=2349"},"modified":"2015-08-24T11:31:48","modified_gmt":"2015-08-24T18:31:48","slug":"assessing-the-safety-of-smart-meter-installations-in-british-columbia-analysis-of-residential-structure-fires-in-bc-between-july-2010-and-june-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/cpscjr\/2015\/08\/24\/assessing-the-safety-of-smart-meter-installations-in-british-columbia-analysis-of-residential-structure-fires-in-bc-between-july-2010-and-june-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Assessing the Safety of Smart Meter Installations in British Columbia: Analysis of Residential Structure Fires in BC Between July 2010 and June 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In June 2011, BC Hydro commenced implementation of its Smart Metering Program, which involved\u00a0converting every residential property in BC from legacy metering to wireless technology smart\u00a0meters. This Smart Metering Program involves replacing existing electrical meters that are now\u00a0becoming obsolete, with a comprehensive wireless smart metering system. As of June 30, 2015, an\u00a0estimated 1.921 million smart meters have been installed, leaving 4,200 smart meter exchanges\u00a0remaining.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<iframe src=\"\/\/docs.google.com\/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fcjr.ufv.ca%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2015%2F08%2FSmart-Meter.pdf&hl=en_US&embedded=true\" class=\"gde-frame\" style=\"width:100%; height:500px; border: none;\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<p class=\"gde-text\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cjr.ufv.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Smart-Meter.pdf\" class=\"gde-link\">Download (PDF, Unknown)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In June 2011, BC Hydro commenced implementation of its Smart Metering Program, which involved\u00a0converting every residential property in BC from legacy metering to wireless technology smart\u00a0meters. This Smart Metering Program involves replacing existing electrical meters that are now\u00a0becoming obsolete, with a comprehensive wireless smart metering system. As of June 30, 2015, an\u00a0estimated 1.921 million smart &#8230; <a title=\"Assessing the Safety of Smart Meter Installations in British Columbia: Analysis of Residential Structure Fires in BC Between July 2010 and June 2015\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/cpscjr\/2015\/08\/24\/assessing-the-safety-of-smart-meter-installations-in-british-columbia-analysis-of-residential-structure-fires-in-bc-between-july-2010-and-june-2015\/\" aria-label=\"More on Assessing the Safety of Smart Meter Installations in British Columbia: Analysis of Residential Structure Fires in BC Between July 2010 and June 2015\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":174,"featured_media":401,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/cpscjr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/cpscjr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/cpscjr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/cpscjr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/174"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/cpscjr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/cpscjr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/cpscjr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/cpscjr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/cpscjr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/cpscjr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}