The invention combines multiple technologies to create a low-cost, self-powering local area network (LAN) for the collection of data from water, electric, and natural gas meters and the wireless transfer of the meter readings to a solar powered, wide area network (WAN). The WAN collects the data and re-transmits the readings to the secure server via satellite, cellular, or radio frequency in bulk data transmission. The utilities can view, download to billing software, and manage the meter readings in a much more cost efficient and less labor-intensive manner that any system currently available.
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