Smart meters play an important role in smart grid architectures by enabling best operational efficiency, enhanced usage monitoring and variable pricing structure, among other advantages. On the other hand, meters have often been deployed with several security vulnerabilities that can compromise the mentioned benefits and result in cyber attacks. Therefore, teams involved in the development of s...

This paper is the first country-specific analysis of market-driven Smart Metering innovation system, covering technologies, actors, and policies. It provides new insights on key enablers barriers in rollout electricity Meters (SMs) without binding regulatory mandate. The presented research based Technology Innovation System (TIS) for Poland, where an obligation scheme rolling out SMs has been i...

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-...

The advent of smart meters has automated the entire process of billing generation system over commercial energy usage which was previously done using digital meter. Although western countries practice its usage more, it is still unknown to many developing countries along with its power distribution. Hence, this paper reviews the working principle of smart meters along with the brief of basic op...

Emerging Internet of Things (IoT) technologies and applications have enabled the Smart Grid Utility control center to connect, monitor, exchange data between smart appliances, meters (SMs), concentrators (DCs) server (CCS) over Internet. In particular, DC receives different Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) from multiple SMs for processing, queuing, aggregation, forwarding onward towards C...

The field of smart materials and structures has evolved in the last 10 years to the point of viability for commercial mass-production industries. A good example of this is the automotive industry where there has been a 600% increase in patent applications. While the fundamental science is present for many smart materials such as shape memory alloys or piezoelectrics, there have been only a few ...

Today smart meters are increasingly used in worldwide. Smart meters are the advanced meters capable of measuring customer energy consumption at a fine-grained time interval, e.g., every 15 minutes. The data are very sizable, and might be from different sources, along with the other social-economic metrics such as the geographic information of meters, the information about users and their proper...

The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40776-5_25. Abstract. In this paper we analyse the trade-off between privacy-preservation methods and the quality of data mining applications, within the specific context of the smart grid. The use of smart meters to automate data collection is set to solve the problem of electricity theft, which is a serious...

The interconnected nature of the different components of smart grids is a prime example of complexity in technological systems. Developing such systems is highly dependent on the wishes and needs of end-users and other stakeholders. We argue that stakeholder values should be taken into consideration during the design and standardisation of complex infrastructures, and illustrate this with a cas...