British Gas, a company  considered as the largest energy provider in the UK plan on installing the smart meters in 10 million UK homes.

Users are going to be managed the monitoring of the cost of their electricity and gas consumption instantaneously, and in the end see how much power individual appliances are spending.

The government has prearranged that all homes is going to have smart meters by 2020 in a bid to decrease carbon emissions.

People are expecting that the capability to  check power use with pounds and pence costs fastened is going to encourage customers to check their usage.

British Gas thought that it would be using the information in helping people make educated choices.

Managing director of British Gas Smart Homes, Dean Keeling said that it can be used to deliver radiant insight to the consumer to say ‘you do not have enough insulation in your home’, or your central heating system is costing one a fortune.

It helps them deliver insight to the consumer that they can trust, and they know that it is accurate. Ultimately for them that mean that it can help in building a better business.

Green campaign group Greenpeace welcomed the initiation of smart meters.

A spokesman says the smarter use of energy considered as on the biggest differences that people could make in their lives, rather than just reasoning about new ways of producing more energy.

It is going to go some way to helping the UK meet the needed carbon emission targets.

British Gas customers who got the upgrade is going to have detached smart meters for electricity and gas.

At the most basic level, the devices can calculate energy consumption for the whole hours and show the real cost to the consumer, based on present billing prices.

For people, who already have devoted in newer smart machines, such as fridges and washing machines, the meters are going to manage  and record a  complete breakdown of what each one is using.

When it comes to electricity, users can use the smart plugs which can be seen between the appliance and the power outlet that gathers the data upon consumption.

The detail  passed on to the smart meter by means of the short range Zigbee wireless interaction standard, before getting transmitted to British Gas’ central system over a GPRS mobile data link.

The company claims that they are hoping to offer refined control systems on gadgets such as smartphones and tablets.