Some meters have a Radio Teleswitch inside them. Yours isn’t one of them. Many RTS systems use an ordinary meter - like yours - with a radio switch separate from it, not necessarily in the same room. So your single photo isn’t enough to prove one way or the other whether your installation is RTS -controlled or not. If you’re certain that there’s no other black box with a label including Radio on it, perhaps near the consumer unit (‘fuse box’), then you don’t have an RTS system.

That meter has only another couple of years’ life left, so if you’re offered a smart meter in exchange for it, you might just as well go for it now.

 

This is all I can see 

The black box under the meter is labelled protected multiple earth

No tele switch box and nothing labelled radio

The RTS determines when there is power to heating equipment, and makes sure that it’s recorded as offpeak usage. It’s not just the switching bit, turning heaters on and off when the DNO says so, but also the recording bit. That involves the RTS unit sending a signal to the meter to start or stop recording offpeak on the ‘low’ register. There’s no sign of the cable that would carry this signal to your meter, so we can safely say that this is not an RTS-controlled system (I take it you checked the consumer unit and anything near it). 

 

Thanks

I can take another picture when I get home. 

I don't recall seeing any other box or radio labels. 

It's just a small locked cupboard with meters for 2 apartments in it. 

This is all I can see 

The black box under the meter is labelled protected multiple earth

No tele switch box and nothing labelled radio

The RTS determines when there is power to heating equipment, and makes sure that it’s recorded as offpeak usage. It’s not just the switching bit, turning heaters on and off when the DNO says so, but also the recording bit. That involves the RTS unit sending a signal to the meter to start or stop recording offpeak on the ‘low’ register. There’s no sign of the cable that would carry this signal to your meter, so we can safely say that this is not an RTS-controlled system (I take it you checked the consumer unit and anything near it). 

Hi, thanks for the reply

Yes I checked everything I could see in that cupboard.

This apartment has a few electric heaters each of which  have a switch on the wall. And an electric hot water tank. I can't see anything else obvious and I can't see anything labeled anywhere.

The consumer unit is the meter itself?

I pressed the button and it cycles from on peak to off peak readings and a digital clock. The clock doesn't seem to change for daylight savings either.

‘Consumer unit’ (CU) is the current name for what used to be called a fuse box. It doesn’t normally contain any fuses these days, just a load of circuit breakers. RTS units are often placed near the CU rather than near the meter.

Any help identifying this would be great! My OVO account doesn't seem to think I have an RTS meter but I have no idea what this is attached to my meter. An engineer came around five months ago after the landlord asked us to fit smart meters, but he informed me the overall meter set up wasn't safe enough for him to do anything with (an unpinned floating block etc). Although the landlord and agency were duly informed they since haven't done anything, and now the radio shut off date is approaching I'm so worried that the landlord's laziness will essentially mean my power is cut off. 

Thanks for any help!

Hey ​@SmallMoth !

Doesn’t look RTS to me - this very much looks like a local timeswitch so won’t be affected by the RTS Shutdown.

Please post more photos and details of your situation though. If we can offer advice on it, we will happily do so.

No. It’s a good old fashioned electro-mechanical timeswitch with two jobs: turn the power on and off to storage- and water heaters, and switch the tariff between Normal/Day/Peak and Low/Night/Offpeak rates. Have you checked whether it’s still showing the right time? They do have a habit of drifting over the years, and that one looks to be a bit long in the tooth … It’s a pity the photos aren’t a bit sharper, because it’s not easy to decipher the markings.

At any rate, this isn’t radio-controlled and it won’t be affected by the RTS shut-down. 

Thanks so much guys! Apologies for the bad photos, I've been rushing around all afternoon. I'll try and send some better ones soon, but in the meantime I'm glad to hear that it doesn't appear to be RTS. 

No worries. We’ll be here when you’re ready

Is this a day, night rate meter?

Reminds me of a meter I had back in the late 1980s when we had night storage & water heating on a cheaper night rate and expensive rate for electric used during the day. 
Never again will I have storage heaters and big immersion heater for water. Very expensive and house was never warm even though we had decent upto date insulation. 

It is part of one, yes. But I can’t say what tariff it’s on from those blurry photos alone.

Hi ​@SmallMoth and a warm welcome to the OVO Forum!

Thanks for posting . I can see some other members have come through with some great answers here, and I’m in agreement - this doesn’t look like an RTS meter. Some more clear photos of the meter and the surrounding area will be helpful, we could even ask one of our engineers to have a look at the photos. 

It might be worth asking your District Network Operator (DNO) whether there’s anything they can do to make the setup safe so that a smart meter installation can be carried out. The DNO is the company in charge of the electricity supply coming up into your home and local area. You can find out who your  DNO is here. I can’t guarantee they’ll be able to help, but worth a shot.

We look forward to seeing some more photos - I’m sure we’ll get to the bottom of what needs to be done!

​@SmallMoth I’ve been chatting to one of the Metering here at OVO. I’ve sent you a direct message, get back to me when you can.