No need to fight them, we’ll write to them explaining the stupidity.
Sure that’s not the person at the front talking lots?
As Jac suggests and many other vendors do, send at a reasonable interval and have a delta change value for when the needle moves faster than normal.
Or for me, string a set of readings together so you still get 10 minute reading intervals but don’t send them - what a waste of battery to be told that the situation is as expected.