Leveraging Artificial Intelligence of Things for Anomaly Detection in Advanced Metering Infrastructures

The integration of more sensory and actuation components to the Smart Grid produces high volume of data. Consequently, this big data stretches the transmission, processing, and storage capabilities of the Smart Grid infrastructures. The vulnerability of advanced metering infrastructures (AMIs) is on the rise, as more devices are connected to the Internet these days. The aforementioned realities have continued to necessitate a debate on the future of cloud-centered artificial intelligence (AI) services for latency-sensitive user-centric IoT applications. It is rapidly becoming necessary to leverage on the applicability of EdgeAI directly on IoT sensory nodes involved in energy metering. This paper proposes the applicability of Artificial Intelligence situated on smart meter, to perform micro analytics at the edge of AMI networks: Artificial Intelligence of Things. Therefore, a functional AMI model based on IoT and EdgeAI is presented herein. Additionally, an integration architecture for the anticipated Smart Grid based on IoT and EdgeAI is presented. On implementation, the proposed model would provide high performance analytics and Edge computing capabilities to enable AMIs initiate instant data check at the source and relay relevant real-time data to the Utility through the Internet.