A commodity-meter management system including commodity meters (e.g.,
electrical energy meters, gas meters, and/or water meters), one or more
servers, and a communications application to communicate between the
meters and the servers. The meters are connected to the servers via
communication mediums. The communications application can communicate
bi-directionally in real-time between the meters and the servers via the
communication mediums. The communications application can determine the
actual configuration parameters according to which the meter is operating
at any given time. In order to detect theft of a commodity, the
communications application can compare the actual configuration parameters
to default configuration parameters. If the actual and default
configuration parameters are not equal, substantially equal, or within a
predetermined threshold, the communications application indicates that a
tamper event has occurred.
