Publication Details
Metering Homes: Do Energy Efficiency and Privacy Need to be in Conflict?
smart meters, privacy, energy efficiency, GDPR, security, Wireless M-Bus
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.
@INPROCEEDINGS{FITPUB12512,
author = "Libor Pol\v{c}\'{a}k and Petr Matou\v{s}ek",
title = "Metering Homes: Do Energy Efficiency and Privacy Need to be in Conflict?",
pages = "47--58",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Security and Cryptography",
year = 2022,
location = "Lisabon, PT",
publisher = "SciTePress - Science and Technology Publications",
ISBN = "978-989-758-590-6",
doi = "10.5220/0011139000003283",
language = "english",
url = "https://www.fit.vut.cz/research/publication/12512"
}