Smart meters track your daily routine through power usage patterns, creating detailed lifestyle profiles from appliance signatures collected every 15 seconds.

The smart grid is the next generation of the utility framework that converges utility providers, telecommunications infrastructure and information technology. Striving to take the utility delivery ...

Researchers found that widely deployed smart meters pose a “massive” cybersecurity risk, potentially enabling data manipulation, energy theft, and service disruption. They propose a new detection ...

Smart meters are key parts of the smart-grid power-distribution networks now being rolled out internationally to achieve economic and environmental benefits. Traditional energy meters are mechanical, ...

Smart meters will provide utility companies with unprecedented access inside people's homes A 2012 study showed that smart meters can detect what program is playing on homeowners' televisions Con ...

NYSEG and RG&E are installing the latest in energy use technology − smart meters − across their wide customer base that includes more than 1 million electric hook-ups and 500,000 natural gas services.

While consumers could stand to save money with the elimination of estimated bills, Ofgem anticipates that the smart meter installation programme beginning in 2014 could cost upwards of £11 billion -- ...

In response to the smart meter decision document published today by the Department of Energy and Climate Change, Zoe McLeod, energy expert at Consumer Focus, said: ‘We welcome this announcement today.