If you want to be on first name terms with your meter reader......get one fitted. Our last house we saw the meter reader once a year if lucky. We either read it ourselves or it was estimated. Moved house eighteen months ago, had a Smart Meter fitted and he arrives every three months to read it.
Tells me all that I need to know, a tick box exercise paid for by us. Really don't know why I was surprised though, good old SSE.
Peter