As a result of recent changes in the policy governing internet content distribution, such as the institution of per listener royalties for internet radio broadcasters, Content Distributors (CDs) now have an incentive to underreport the size of their audience. Existing metering protocols protect only against the inflation of audience size. We introduce the first protocols for audience metering t...

Abstract Internet of Things (IoT) has recently become one the fast‐growing technologies in world. Integrating existing systems with smart grids still represents a significant challenge arising from massive cost upgrading infrastructure. This paper provides an IoT infrastructure solution based on newly designed low‐cost microcontroller‐based remote terminal unit (RTU) to integrate new, old, and ...

In recent years, more than 50 million advanced (smart) metering infrastructure units have been installed by the U.S electric utilities. Although, smart metering can provide hourly or sub-hourly customer load, it has failed to directly benefit and provide actionable information to consumers and engage them in energy savings. Using nonintrusive load monitoring techniques, the smart metering data ...

Power line communication has recently attracted the attention of energy companies as a useful and natural technology for building the advanced metering infrastructure. In this context, device language message specification/companion specification for energy metering (DLMS/COSEM) is an increasingly popular standardised application protocol for communication between utilities and their customers....

The classical solutions for collecting data from energy meters, based on human readings, tend to be replaced by modern solutions. Automatic Meter Reading (AMR) is such a modern solution. It means to automatically collect data from different kinds of meters. In this way consumption of water, gas and energy can be remotely measured. An Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) is an AMR infrastructu...

For energy management and billing purposes, advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) requires periodic transmission of consumer power consumption readings by smart meters to the electric utility (EU). An efficient way for collecting is change-and-transmit approach (CAT AMI) whereby are only transmitted if there an enough change in readings. CAT AMI, however, plagued malicious consumers who hack t...

As a result of recent changes in the policy governing Internet content distribution, such as the institution of per listener royalties for Internet radio broadcasters, content distributors now have an incentive to under-report the size of their audience. Existing metering protocols only protect against inflation of audience size. We introduce the first protocols for audience metering that prote...