Cloud computing is a new computational and commercial model. It brings the illusion of a virtually infinite computing infrastructure/platform that provides advanced features. The increased number of VMs and applications in virtualized data centers triggers serious scalability concerns with regards to monitoring. Many features of Cloud need supports from underlying Cloud monitoring system. There...

Advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) is an architecture for automated, two-way communication between a smart utility meter and a utility company. It is responsible for collecting all the data and information from the loads and consumers. These data and information are critical as it threats the reliability of electrical energy delivery and consumers' privacy. Traditional security solution rel...

Solar energy is considered a promising source of power generation in sub-Saharan Africa due to the high sunshine these areas. Deploying decentralised solar-powered mini-grid systems provide access electricity rural areas fraught with difficulties accurately predicting consumption, automatic monitoring, and operation sustainability support socio-economic conditions communities. This study propos...

A real-time smart metering system has strict requirements, since every piece of data gathered from various meters every hour is of importance, and each component consisting of metering infrastructure should be sustainable. Therefore, it is necessary to efficiently manage the meter data set in smart metering networks as well as in a server. Therefore, we propose a dedicated file system, a LIght-...

Advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) is an imperative component of the smart grid, as it is responsible for collecting, measuring, analyzing energy usage data, and transmitting these data to the data concentrator and then to a central system in the utility side. Therefore, the security of AMI is one of the most demanding issues in the smart grid implementation. In this paper, we propose an in...

This paper analyzes the characteristics of narrowband power line communication (NB-PLC) channels and assesses their performance when used for advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) communications. This medium has been traditionally considered too hostile. However, the research activities carried out in the last decade have shown that it is a suitable technology for a large number of application...

One of the main characteristics of on demand computing in general and of utility computing services in particular is the “pay-as-you-go” model. To implement this model, one needs a flexible way to meter the services and resources being used. The UMI (Universal Management Infrastructure) architecture, designed to provide common functions that are needed by most, if not all, of the utilities in a...