A Neighbourhood Area Network is a functional component of the Smart Grid that interconnects the end user domain with the Energy Services Provider (ESP) domain. It forms the “edge” of the provider network, interconnecting homes instrumented with Smart Meters (SM) with the ESP. The SM is a dual interface, wireless communication device through which information is transacted across the user (a hom...

The smart grid is the modern electricity grid, which significantly improves efficiency, reliability, and sustainability of transmission systems. advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) system, essential system in enables real-time data collection analysis obtained from meters (SMs) other devices through last-mile communication networks. In this paper, hardware-based link quality estimation (LQE)...

Smart Meters belong to the Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) and allow customers to monitor locally and remotely the current usage of energy. Providers query Smart Meters for billing purpose or to establish the amount of energy needed by houses. However, reading details sent from smart meters to the energy provider can be used to violate customers’ privacy. In this paper, our contribution ...

Data aggregation may be considered as the technique through which streams of data gathered from Smart Meters (SMs) can processed and transmitted to a Utility Control Center (UCC) in reliable cost-efficient manner without compromising Quality Service (QoS) requirements. In typical Grid (SG) paradigm, UCC is usually located far away consumers (SMs), has led degradation network performance. Althou...

With energy monitoring and control playing an increasingly important role in home energy management, Smart Meters are the key technology for the smart house deployment. Smart Meters collect data from devices to databases for analysis and billing purposes, do data logging, power quality and real time monitoring, offering the knowledge of energy consumption in order to control the flow of energy ...

Load profiles generated by smart meters represent a privacy concern when analyzed by Non-Invasive Load Monitoring algorithms. Past research in preserving privacy and countering these algorithms has negated the benefits provided by smart meters. This research seeks to protect consumer privacy while maintaining the benefits of smart meters. The method proposed achieves this through the addition o...

Smart Meters have been massively deployed recently, in order to provide energy awareness to people, helping them reduce their electricity footprint. We propose a Web-based infrastructure for integrating Smart Meters in future houses, providing high interoperability and scalability. We show that, by reusing the core principles of the modern Web architecture, we can build flexible applications on...

Intelligent technologies are increasingly facilitating sustainable water management strategies in Australia. While this innovation can present clear cost benefits to utilities through immediate leak detection and deference of capital costs, the impact of this technology on households is less distinct. By offering real-time engagement and detailed end-use consumption breakdowns, there is signifi...

Smart meters that track fine-grained electricity usage and implement sophisticated usage-based billing policies, e.g., based on timeof-use, are a key component of recent smart grid initiatives that aim to increase the electric grid’s efficiency. A key impediment to widespread smart meter deployment is that fine-grained usage data indirectly reveals detailed information about consumer behavior, ...

Smart Meters have been called "Smart" for their communication capabilities, advanced billing configuration, event logging and register functions. Until now, DSOs have had little insight of the distribution grid, due to the absence of monitoring devices located at distribution-lines. Nowadays distribution networks are developing new capabilities with the installation of Smart Meters. Now it beco...