Communications Systems in Smart Metering: A Concise Systematic Literature review

Smart metering is an essential component of advanced grid infrastructure to provide better services to the consumers, which digitally provides the consumption data to both consumer and utility companies. The communications technologies used in smart metering needs a robust authentication approach to secure the data. In this paper, we have realized a systematic literature review (SLR) concerning the communications technologies involved in smart metering and the issues associated with them, like the data security concerns and their practical solutions. We have searched the main international databases such as IEEE Xplore, Elsevier and Springer Libraries with appropriate key words and processed the references by means of a systematic review process in order to identify the current solutions for gathering the data, the main issues related to the data security and the aspects that are still to be investigated.