Fort Frances Power Corporation is expecting full implementation of the so-called Smart Meters by the end of next month.
CEO Jorge Ruppenstein says the last few homes will soon be installed with the new hydro meters which will no longer require a person to visit the home to read.
"Under our current model we go around once a month to read the meter," says Ruppenstein. "With the Smart Meters, they can be remotely read."
Ruppenstein says it will also provide the utility with stats on hydro usage on an hourly basis.
The privacy commissioner is raising concerns about the province's smart grid plan.
Anne Cavoukian fears it could reveal "intimate details'' about the lives of hydro customers.
Cavoukian says information about when people cook, take showers -- even whether a home has an alarm system -- could be determined by the data collected.
