Holistic Privacy for Electricity, Water, and Natural Gas Metering in Next Generation Smart Homes

Privacy Strategies in Smart Metering

This paper discusses the threat to privacy that smart meters pose and offers solutions that protect user privacy without diminishing the provider’s capabilities to use the data for legitimate purposes. Two use cases are considered: collection of aggregated real-time data by the provider for optimization, and monthly billing of customers. For the first, we present various approaches before propo...

Privacy in Smart Metering Ecosystems

While smart metering is a key technology for reaching a sustainable consumption of resources, smart buildings are on their way to provide ubiquitous home automation. These technologies combine to frame a smart metering ecosystem with corresponding services and business models introducing new security challenges including privacy protection. This paper outlines a novel approach to provide custom...

Plug-In Privacy for Smart Metering Billing

Traditional electricity meters are replaced by Smart Meters in customers’ households. Smart Meters collect fine-grained utility consumption profiles from customers, which in turn enables the introduction of dynamic, time-of-use tariffs. However, the fine-grained usage data that is compiled in this process also allows to infer the inhabitant’s personal schedules and habits. We propose a privacy-...

Zero config residential gateway experiences for next generation smart homes

1389-1286/$ see front matter 2009 Elsevier B.V doi:10.1016/j.comnet.2009.07.007 * Corresponding author. Tel.: +34 916248747. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (J. García-Reino (I. Vidal), [email protected] (F. Valera), azcorra@it. Home networks and home environments are developing so fast that a new generation of residential gateways is needed in order to allow emerging services and the huge am...

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