A taste of things to come? - UK smart meter data access

Today n3rgy collects data from the meter once a day. i.e. it downloads your data in the early hours of the morning and makes it available to those who have been granted permission to access it. We’re also piloting increasing this collection frequency to every 2 hours (and potentially more frequently in the future) . With regards to CAD pairing, we would be happy to also offer this service when and if a market of CADs becomes available but as previously mentioned, there’s very few CADs available on the market today which aren’t already part of a closed system.

Out of interested, what do you guys believe the imperative for real time data is? If you have the tariffs (which always need to be published the day before) you already have the mechanism to automatically minimise the cost of power hungry appliances!?