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  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,609 Views
21 Pages

Security Management for an Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) System of Smart Electrical Grids

  • Ahmed A. Abdullah,
  • B. M. El-den,
  • Khaled M. Abo-Al-Ez and
  • Tarek M. Hassan

5 August 2023

Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) plays a crucial role in enabling the efficient functioning of Smart Electrical Grids, but its successful implementation hinges on robust cybersecurity measures. To uphold data confidentiality and integrity, the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
49 Citations
9,588 Views
18 Pages

29 August 2016

In smart cities, advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) of the smart grid facilitates automated metering, control and monitoring of power distribution by employing a wireless network. Due to this wireless nature of communication, there exist potentia...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,858 Views
22 Pages

21 February 2019

As the core component of the smart grid, advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) is responsible for automated billing, demand response, load forecasting, management, etc. The jamming attack poses a serious threat to the AMI communication networks, esp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,564 Views
18 Pages

1 September 2017

Advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) refers to the electricity service infrastructure between electricity consumers and suppliers and is technically essential for the realization of a smart grid environment. To implement AMI, various communications...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,440 Views
22 Pages

A QoS-Aware Machine Learning-Based Framework for AMI Applications in Smart Grids

  • Asfandyar Khan,
  • Arif Iqbal Umar,
  • Arslan Munir,
  • Syed Hamad Shirazi,
  • Muazzam A. Khan and
  • Muhammad Adnan

6 December 2021

The Internet of things (IoT) enables a diverse set of applications such as distribution automation, smart cities, wireless sensor networks, and advanced metering infrastructure (AMI). In smart grids (SGs), quality of service (QoS) and AMI traffic man...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,996 Views
30 Pages

Analysis of AMI Communication Methods in Various Field Environments

  • Dong Sik Kim,
  • Beom Jin Chung and
  • Young Mo Chung

5 October 2020

In order to construct an efficient on-site communication network for an advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) in Korea, the high-speed power line communication (HS PLC), wireless smart utility network (Wi-SUN), and ZigBee modems are currently being...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,873 Views
23 Pages

13 September 2023

Carbon reduction programs are being introduced for carbon neutrality and energy transition to clean energy sources in various sectors, such as energy, buildings, transportation, and agriculture. In the residential electricity energy of the energy sec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,063 Views
20 Pages

25 May 2023

The smart grid is the modern electricity grid, which significantly improves the efficiency, reliability, and sustainability of electricity transmission systems. The advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) system, which is the essential system in the s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
123 Citations
7,328 Views
17 Pages

18 January 2021

Among the key components of a smart grid, advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) has become the preferred target for network intrusion due to its bidirectional communication and Internet connection. Intrusion detection systems (IDSs) can monitor abno...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
8,270 Views
26 Pages

A Data Analytics/Big Data Framework for Advanced Metering Infrastructure Data

  • Jenniffer S. Guerrero-Prado,
  • Wilfredo Alfonso-Morales and
  • Eduardo F. Caicedo-Bravo

22 August 2021

The Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) data represent a source of information in real time not only about electricity consumption but also as an indicator of other social, demographic, and economic dynamics within a city. This paper presents a Da...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,986 Views
13 Pages

25 April 2019

Advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) is an important application of smart grid communication technology used for the remote monitoring and control of smart meters. Broadband powerline communication (BB-PLC) systems could perhaps be used for AMI; ho...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,212 Views
28 Pages

Monitoring of MV Cable Screens, Cable Joints and Earthing Systems Using Cable Screen Current Measurements

  • Krzysztof Lowczowski,
  • Jozef Lorenc,
  • Andrzej Tomczewski,
  • Zbigniew Nadolny and
  • Jozef Zawodniak

3 July 2020

The paper presents the possibility of using cable screen earthing current measurements for MV, single-core cable line monitoring. Cable screen earthing current measurement allows the condition of cable screen connections, degradation of earthing syst...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,558 Views
20 Pages

Built Environment Factors (BEF) and Residential Land Carbon Emissions (RLCE)

  • Qinghua Liao,
  • Xiaoping Zhang,
  • Hu Zhao,
  • Yili Liao,
  • Peng Li and
  • Yichen Liao

Evaluating the effects of built environment factors (BEF) on residential land carbon emissions (RLCE) is an effective way to reduce RLCE and promote low-carbon development from the perspective of urban planning. In this study, the Grey correlation an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
138 Views
25 Pages

With the widespread deployment of the Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) in Power Industrial Control Systems (PICS), a significant and inherent property of network traffic data is its pronounced class imbalance. The continuous emergence of new ty...

  • Article
  • Open Access
56 Citations
11,812 Views
19 Pages

Broadband PLC for Clustered Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) Architecture

  • Augustine Ikpehai,
  • Bamidele Adebisi and
  • Khaled M. Rabie

21 July 2016

Advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) subsystems monitor and control energy distribution through exchange of information between smart meters and utility networks. A key challenge is how to select a cost-effective communication system without compro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,633 Views
15 Pages

A Blockchain-Enabled Distributed Advanced Metering Infrastructure Secure Communication (BC-AMI)

  • Nahida Islam,
  • Md. Sazzadur Rahman,
  • Imtiaz Mahmud,
  • Md. Nur Amin Sifat and
  • You-Ze Cho

20 July 2022

The world is facing an urgent need to provide secure communication and data access control in advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) because conventional cryptographic key management and authentication protocols are at stake. The cryptography schemes...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,459 Views
24 Pages

10 February 2024

The increasing concern for environmental conservation has spurred government initiatives towards energy efficiency. One of the key research areas in this regard is demand response, particularly focusing on differential pricing initiatives such as Tim...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,754 Views
14 Pages

10 May 2021

Data aggregation may be considered as the technique through which streams of data gathered from Smart Meters (SMs) can be processed and transmitted to a Utility Control Center (UCC) in a reliable and cost-efficient manner without compromising the Qua...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
915 Views
30 Pages

Smart Metering as a Regulatory and Technological Enabler for Flexibility in Distribution Networks: Incentives, Devices, and Protocols

  • Matias A. Kippke Salomón,
  • José Manuel Carou Álvarez,
  • Lucía Súárez Ramón and
  • Pablo Arboleya

3 October 2025

The digital transformation of low-voltage distribution networks demands a renewed perspective on both regulatory frameworks and metering technologies. This article explores the intersection between incentive structures and metering technologies, focu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,605 Views
23 Pages

A DSM Test Case Applied on an End-to-End System, from Consumer to Energy Provider

  • Nikoleta Andreadou,
  • Yannis Soupionis,
  • Fausto Bonavitacola and
  • Giuseppe Prettico

23 March 2018

Current decarbonisation goals have, in recent years, led to a tremendous increase in electricity production generated from intermittent Renewable Energy Sources. Despite their contribution to reducing society’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions they hav...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
9,585 Views
42 Pages

Noise Sources, Effects and Countermeasures in Narrowband Power-Line Communications Networks: A Practical Approach

  • Gregorio López,
  • José Ignacio Moreno,
  • Eutimio Sánchez,
  • Cristina Martínez and
  • Fernando Martín

21 August 2017

The integration of Distributed Generation, Electric Vehicles, and storage without compromising the quality of the power delivery requires the deployment of a communications overlay that allows monitoring and controlling low voltage networks in almost...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,178 Views
27 Pages

Smart Meter Traffic in a Real LV Distribution Network

  • Nikoleta Andreadou,
  • Evangelos Kotsakis and
  • Marcelo Masera

5 May 2018

The modernization of the distribution grid requires a huge amount of data to be transmitted and handled by the network. The deployment of Advanced Metering Infrastructure systems results in an increased traffic generated by smart meters. In this work...

  • Review
  • Open Access
71 Citations
7,785 Views
25 Pages

A Comprehensive Survey on Cyber-Physical Smart Grid Testbed Architectures: Requirements and Challenges

  • Abdallah A. Smadi,
  • Babatunde Tobi Ajao,
  • Brian K. Johnson,
  • Hangtian Lei,
  • Yacine Chakhchoukh and
  • Qasem Abu Al-Haija

The integration of improved control techniques with advanced information technologies enables the rapid development of smart grids. The necessity of having an efficient, reliable, and flexible communication infrastructure is achieved by enabling real...

  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
11,654 Views
22 Pages

10 October 2015

Context and situational awareness are key features and trends of the smart grid and enable adaptable, flexible and extendable smart grid services. However, the traditional hardware-dependent communication infrastructure is not designed to identify th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
7,647 Views
20 Pages

26 August 2015

The concern of energy price hikes and the impact of climate change because of energy generation and usage forms the basis for residential building energy conservation. Existing energy meters do not provide much information about the energy usage of t...

  • Review
  • Open Access
12 Citations
7,018 Views
36 Pages

The Load Shifting Potential of Domestic Refrigerators in Smart Grids: A Comprehensive Review

  • Luís Sousa Rodrigues,
  • Daniel Lemos Marques,
  • Jorge Augusto Ferreira,
  • Vítor António Ferreira Costa,
  • Nelson Dias Martins and
  • Fernando José Neto Da Silva

17 October 2022

Domestic refrigeration and freezing appliances can be used for electrical load shifting from peak to off-peak demand periods, thus allowing greater penetration of renewable energy sources (RES) and significantly contributing to the reduction of CO2 e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,927 Views
16 Pages

Transmission and Distribution Real-Time Analysis Software for Monitoring and Control: Design and Simulation Testing

  • Dan Zhu,
  • Murat Dilek,
  • Max Zhong,
  • Abhineet Parchure,
  • Robert Broadwater,
  • Nicholas Cincotti,
  • Timothy Kutchen,
  • Scott Placide and
  • Luan Watson

16 May 2023

The US electric grid is facing operational, stability, and security challenges. Transmission system operators need some measure of visibility into distribution system renewable generation. Distribution system generation needs to support transmission...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,550 Views
17 Pages

7 January 2021

For apartment complexes receiving medium-voltage electrical energies, the apartments can choose an electricity charging method between the single and general contracts in the Republic of Korea. In the single contract, a residential high-voltage rate...

  • Article
  • Open Access
45 Citations
4,361 Views
19 Pages

A Smart Grid AMI Intrusion Detection Strategy Based on Extreme Learning Machine

  • Ke Zhang,
  • Zhi Hu,
  • Yufei Zhan,
  • Xiaofen Wang and
  • Keyi Guo

18 September 2020

The smart grid is vulnerable to network attacks, thus requiring a high detection rate and fast detection speed for intrusion detection systems. With a fast training speed and a strong model generalization ability, the extreme learning machine (ELM) p...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,209 Views
34 Pages

Self-Diagnostic Advanced Metering Infrastructure Based on Power-Line Communication: A Study Case in Spanish Low-Voltage Distribution Networks

  • Matías Ariel Kippke Salomón,
  • José Manuel Carou Álvarez,
  • Lucía Suárez Ramón and
  • Pablo Arboleya

31 March 2025

The transformation of low-voltage distribution grids toward decentralized, user-centric models has increased the need for advanced metering infrastructures capable of ensuring both visibility and control. This paper presents a self-diagnostic advance...

  • Article
  • Open Access
103 Citations
11,258 Views
22 Pages

30 July 2018

Interest in green energy has increased worldwide. Therefore, smart grid projects to form a more efficient and eco-friendly intelligent grid by combining information technology (IT) technology with the existing grid are actively being conducted. In Ko...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
7,560 Views
18 Pages

Software Architectures for Smart Grid System—A Bibliographical Survey

  • Ramesh Ananthavijayan,
  • Prabhakar Karthikeyan Shanmugam,
  • Sanjeevikumar Padmanaban,
  • Jens Bo Holm-Nielsen,
  • Frede Blaabjerg and
  • Viliam Fedak

26 March 2019

Smart grid software interconnects multiple Engineering disciplines (power systems, communication, software and hardware technology, instrumentation, big data, etc.). The software architecture is an evolving concept in smart grid systems, in which sys...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,636 Views
20 Pages

20 February 2019

In this paper, we propose a method to estimate communication performance for the advanced metering infrastructure that employs the power line communication (PLC) technology. Using bit-per-symbol signals from the PLC network management system, we esti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,999 Views
14 Pages

Reliability Monitoring Based on Higher-Order Statistics: A Scalable Proposal for the Smart Grid

  • Olivia Florencias-Oliveros,
  • Juan-José González-de-la-Rosa,
  • Agustín Agüera-Pérez and
  • José-Carlos Palomares-Salas

25 December 2018

The increasing development of the smart grid demands reliable monitoring of the power quality at different levels, introducing more and more measurement points. In this framework, the advanced metering infrastructure must deal with this large amount...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,815 Views
16 Pages

23 September 2019

In view of Smart-Grid architecture, wireless Last-Mile Network (LMN) devices as smart meters and intelligent home control machines are normally installed in harsh and lossy communication environment. In order to improve communication reliability of L...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,924 Views
20 Pages

17 September 2021

Automatic meter infrastructure (AMI) systems using remote metering are being widely used to utilize water resources efficiently and minimize non-revenue water. We propose a convolutional neural network-long short-term memory network (CNN-LSTM)-based...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,635 Views
17 Pages

Communication Performance Assessment for Advanced Metering Infrastructure

  • Jen-Hao Teng,
  • Chia-Wei Chao,
  • Bin-Han Liu,
  • Wei-Hao Huang and
  • Jih-Ching Chiu

28 December 2018

Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI), the foundation of smart grids, can be used to provide numerous intelligent power applications and services based on the data acquired from AMI. Effective and efficient communication performance between widely-s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
6,687 Views
16 Pages

Smart Grid Applications for a Practical Implementation of IP over Narrowband Power Line Communications

  • Noelia Uribe-Pérez,
  • Itziar Angulo,
  • David De la Vega,
  • Txetxu Arzuaga,
  • Igor Fernández and
  • Amaia Arrinda

6 November 2017

Currently, Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) systems have equipped the low voltage section with a communication system that is being used mainly for metering purposes, but it can be further employed for additional applications related to the Sma...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,385 Views
12 Pages

9 February 2022

Digital technologies, especially information and communication technologies, paved the way for social welfare by providing efficient and effective means for services. In the energy sector, advanced metering infrastructures (AMIs) are essential for pr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,256 Views
19 Pages

Evolutionary Game for Confidentiality in IoT-Enabled Smart Grids

  • Svetlana Boudko,
  • Peder Aursand and
  • Habtamu Abie

14 December 2020

We applied evolutionary game theory to extend a resource constrained security game model for confidentiality attacks and defenses in an Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI), which is a component of IoT-enabled Smart Grids. The AMI is modeled as a t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,096 Views
17 Pages

A Power Planning Algorithm Based on RPL for AMI Wireless Sensor Networks

  • Marcio L. F. Miguel,
  • Edgard Jamhour,
  • Marcelo E. Pellenz and
  • Manoel C. Penna

25 March 2017

The advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) is an architecture for two-way communication between electric, gas and water meters and city utilities. The AMI network is a wireless sensor network that provides communication for metering devices in the ne...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
5,496 Views
11 Pages

Communication System Design for an Advanced Metering Infrastructure

  • Ricardo Siqueira de Carvalho,
  • Pankaj Kumar Sen,
  • Yaswanth Nag Velaga,
  • Lucas Feksa Ramos and
  • Luciane Neves Canha

2 November 2018

This paper primarily deals with the design of an Information and Control Technology (ICT) network for an advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) on the IEEE 34 node radial distribution network. The application is comprised of 330 smart meters deployed...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,554 Views
24 Pages

Multi-Agent Real-Time Advanced Metering Infrastructure Based on Fog Computing

  • Ivan Popović,
  • Aleksandar Rakić and
  • Ivan D. Petruševski

5 January 2022

This effort to make the power grid more intelligent is tightly coupled with the deployment of advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) as an integral part of the future vision of smart grid. The goal of AMI is to provide necessary information for the c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
8,872 Views
19 Pages

Advanced information technologies have transformed into high-level services for more efficient use of energy resources through the fusion with the energy infrastructure. As a part of these technologies, the energy cloud is a technology that maximizes...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,913 Views
17 Pages

7 March 2023

In the energy sector, since the adoption of remote device management for massive advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) devices and Internet of Things (IoT) technology using a representational state transfer (RESTful) architecture, a blurred boundary...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,251 Views
22 Pages

The Environmental Impacts of Radio Frequency and Power Line Communication for Advanced Metering Infrastructures in Smart Grids

  • Ons BenRhouma,
  • Chiheb Rebai,
  • Manel Ben-Romdhane,
  • Dario Di Cara,
  • Giovanni Artale and
  • Nicola Panzavecchia

5 December 2023

In the neighborhood area network (NAN), the advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) enables a bidirectional connection between the smart meter (SM) and the data concentrator (DC). Sensors, such as smart meter nodes or environmental sensor nodes, play...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,105 Views
25 Pages

Anomaly Detection in a Smart Microgrid System Using Cyber-Analytics: A Case Study

  • Preetha Thulasiraman,
  • Michael Hackett,
  • Preston Musgrave,
  • Ashley Edmond and
  • Jared Seville

19 October 2023

Smart microgrids are being increasingly deployed within the Department of Defense. The microgrid at Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) Miramar is one such deployment that has fostered the integration of different technologies, including 5G and Advanced...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,205 Views
20 Pages

8 May 2023

Advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) is becoming increasingly popular as an efficient means of energy demand management. By collecting energy data through AMI, it is possible to provide users with information that can induce them to change their be...

  • Article
  • Open Access
56 Citations
11,087 Views
23 Pages

The Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) is one of the Smart Grid (SG) applications that used to upgrade the current power system by proposing a two-way communication system to connect the smart meter devices at homes with the electric control comp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,577 Views
17 Pages

Lightweight Anonymous Authentication and Key Agreement Protocol for a Smart Grid

  • Ya Zhang,
  • Junhua Chen,
  • Shenjin Wang,
  • Kaixuan Ma and
  • Shunfang Hu

11 September 2024

The smart grid (SG) is an efficient and reliable framework capable of controlling computers, automation, new technologies, and devices. Advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) is a crucial part of the SG, facilitating two-way communication between use...

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