There are other similar companies that do this service, too (electronic rent court filings).

they never done this before in the past 15 years I lived here.should I hide any cash, credit cards or jewelry that is laying around the house and electronics as well that can possibly become stolen?

This was an electronic meter.

Oh yeah, and there's also the electronic payments that hit my account on the first of every month like clock-work.

If it has fancy electronic controls, see if there's an "enable icemaker" buried in the menus somewhere.On the back of the refrigerator, the spot where you connect the water line from the house is usually one side of the solenoid valve that lets water into the icemaker. 

You can collect rent electronically, implement late fees, take maintenance/repair requests, keep track of your expenses, everything.

Standard Ebay rules apply; just because the appliance manufacturer's part number is in the ad, and the photo of the item shows it sitting on the appliance manufacturer's parts box, doesn't mean it's actually a manufacturer part.A little more on fridges:The fridge in my rental is the first one I've owned with an electronic control board in it.

Updating an electronic scope of work would have to be some sort of a shared document somewhere in cyberspace.

It was essentially an electronic diary to document raising your kids (and I assume whatever you want as well). 

It's a full property management lifecycle platform, so it does a lot more than just collect rent electronically.