Most of western countries have successfully deployed Smart Meters and are now in a phase of exploration to regulate and leverage the use of smart meter data. In France, the Linky smart meter provides data locally to the end-users in close to realtime, whereas it also makes 30 minutes data available to third party servers on the following day, which is inappropriate for operational energy services applications. In this work we detail the design of a full plug and play solution named Linky TIC Reader (LTR) to locally collect data from the French smart meter and make it available to end-users and to third party energy services providers in close to real time. Although many products to read Linky TIC output are already commercialised, they are usually externally supplied, unlike the LTR described in this work. This work aims to democratise access to an interoperable solution to control and automatically limit households' overall consumption at a low cost and for all distribution board configurations. Furthermore, this article describes several potential applications of the data collected by the LTR, such as load management, non-intrusive load monitoring and load forecasting.