An Efficient Smart Metering Infrastructure in Fog Computing Environment

ABSTRACT With frequent increment in deployment of modern metering infrastructure, the amount of the data gathered increases in very impressive way. Incorporation of such large data needs wide-ranging transformation of the available metering infrastructure. The smart meter is considered as a key element of the smart grid. It provides social, economic and environmental advantages for numerous stakeholders. One of the primary factors that decide the success of smart meters is smart meter data analytics, which handles data acquisition, processing, transmission and interpretation that are beneficial to all stakeholdersSince, as the no. of smart meters increases to higher than hundreds of thousands, it would become increasingly clear that the state-of-the-art centralized information processing architecture will no longer be sustainable under such huge data explosion. In this short communication letter, we suggest an implantable data storage and- processing solution for enhancing the available smart meter infrastructure. The practicality of the suggested solution is validated on a proof-of-concept test bed. Index Terms-- Fog Computing; Smart Gid; Smart Meter; Big Data and Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI).