Metering Homes: Do Energy Efficiency and Privacy Need to be in Conflict?

conference paper

English

The European directive on energy efficiency requires that all meters in multi-apartment buildings installed after 25 October 2020 shall be remotely readable devices where technically feasible and cost effective in terms of being proportionate in relation to the potential energy savings. In practise, this means that some manufacturers produce meters that monitor energy consumption in very short intervals, for example, less than two minutes; even though the directive expects to provide billing information to consumers only once a month starting from 2022. This paper reviews privacy and security risks stemming from the short readouts and provides recommendations for manufacturers and suppliers. The paper focuses on a Wireless M-Bus metering devices that we observed being sold and advertised as the solution to fulfill the European directive on energy efficiency requirements. Nevertheless, we believe that many recommendations and observations are applicable also to other protocols.

smart meters, privacy, energy efficiency, GDPR, security, Wireless M-Bus

POLČÁK, L.; MATOUŠEK, P.

11. 7. 2022

SciTePress - Science and Technology Publications

Lisabon

978-989-758-590-6

Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Security and Cryptography

47

58

12

https://www.fit.vut.cz/research/publication/12512/

http://hdl.handle.net/11012/245221

metering.pdf