Various embodiments disclosed herein provide techniques for detecting hot socket conditions in an electrical system. A hot socket application executing on a utility electricity meter acquires, via a power line communications (PLC) modem, first signal readings associated with a utility electricity meter. The hot socket application acquires, via a radio frequency (RF) transceiver, second signal readings associated with the utility electricity meter. The hot socket application performs one or more operations on the first signal readings and the second signal readings to determine whether a hot socket condition is present. The hot socket application performs a remedial operation in response to determining that the one or operations indicate that the hot socket condition is present.