Sure. If you have an Elster brand meter, you can check out my (incomplete) project ea_receiver [1] or a GNU Radio based project, gr_elster [2]. For other brands, I would check out the rtlamr [3] project. I'm using it to read my gas meter. Finally, if you're into this sort of thing, check out rtl_433 [4]. You'd be amazed how many things are silently communicating all around you.

Note: my work on ea_receiver has stagnated, as my city recently completed an upgrade to their system which unfortunately included enabling message encryption.

  [1] https://github.com/shaunhey/ea_receiver
  [2] https://github.com/argilo/gr-elster
  [3] https://github.com/bemasher/rtlamr
  [4] https://github.com/merbanan/rtl_433

Makes sense. My email might be public, but at least my water meter is encrypted.