The city of Austin  Texas  installed automated  wireless  radiative  electric and gas meters in 2009 All homes  apartments  and multi-family residences in Austin have Smart Meters These Austin Smart Meters are computers on our homes that send electromagnetic pulses of Radio Frequency (RF) and Microwave energy over a wireless system  every 5-30 seconds  and records our electricity and gas usage without the need for a person to manually record the information