S3MP: A SCION based Secure Smart Metering Platform

The number of smart meters deployed around the world is increasing every day. Soon, all energy meters will be smart meters, especially in developed countries. The data from smart meters will enable energy companies to manage their distribution more efficiently and reduce wastage. It eliminates the monthly manual meter readings and enables energy companies to implement services like dynamic pricing. Along with the many benefits of smart meters, it raises various privacy and security concerns. Hackers gaining access to them can cause blackouts and other catastrophic failures. The energy consumption data can reveal many household characteristics using off the shelf statistical methods raising privacy concerns. Energy companies should make sure that the smart meter data does not fall into the wrong hands. Smart metering infrastructures ultimately use the Internet for communication, making it vulnerable to present-day Internet security flaws. The SCION network architecture is a secure next-generation Internet architecture that aims to overcome the flaws of today's Internet, especially in terms of security and privacy. This paper presents the design of a secure smart metering platform on top of the SCION network. Furthermore, a prototypical implementation of the proposed approach is developed and evaluated. We show that with our approach it is possible to achieve a high resilience against potential attacks without compromising on performance.