A fog computing solution for advanced metering infrastructure

With rapid increase in deployment of advanced metering infrastructure, the amount of the data collected increases dramatically. Incorporation of such voluminous data requires wide-ranging transformation of the existing metering infrastructure. However, as the number of smart meters increases to more than hundreds of thousands, it would become increasingly clear that the state-of-the-art centralized information processing architecture will no longer be sustainable under such big data explosion. In this short communication letter, we propose an implantable data storage-and-processing solution for improving the existing smart meter infrastructure. The practicality of the proposed solution is validated on a proof-of-concept testbed.