While utility companies prepare to deploy smart meters to everyone, we -- being the resourceful people that we are -- acquired one for all our fans.

Introducing the energy meter of the future: the Elster REX2 Watthour meter.

The REX2 meter provides several enhancements over non-programmable meters:

Nonvolatile memory rated for 1,000,000 write cycles

Advanced security with full 128-bit AES encryption

Remote upgradeability

Support for 900 MHz and 2.4 GHz ZigBee communication

Optional: flux capacitor add-on???