Smart Energy Meter Implementation: Security Challenges and Opportunities

The digital age has accelerated the development of smart energy monitoring technology (smart meter) that is crucial in our ever complex grid system. Smart energy meters are crucial element of the development of intelligent networking, measuring energy flow and communicating information on energy use between users and service providers, as well as monitoring and managing home appliances and gadgets using consumer data. They monitor consumption and generation of power in real time enabling consumer to be prosumer in energy. However, there are a number of obstacles that this technology may face. In this paper, the architecture, security concerns, and potential solutions to smart energy meter security are presented. In particular, a concise review of Internet of Things (IoT) security vulnerabilities that might possibly cause harm to the community is given, as well as some opportunities in this area. In addition, we explore the challenges and propose several options for researchers to make a more significant contribution. This research area can be considered as a sunrise development in most regions of the world and will continue to be a major development domain. In the future, researchers should see this research area as “greenfield” features of research from a variety of perspectives, including hackability, criminology, and implementation standards.