Utility companies claim smart meters save customers money. But that isn’t always the case.

Distributed intelligence (DI) represents a new smart or active grid that can solve value-based use cases at the grid edge. Through open, secure applications, utilities can use edge-computing ...

Smart meters are critical to modern energy infrastructure, enabling dynamic pricing, real-time analytics, and carbon accountability. Their effectiveness depends entirely on consistent data accuracy.

Researchers found that widely deployed smart meters pose a “massive” cybersecurity risk, potentially enabling data manipulation, energy theft, and service disruption. They propose a new detection ...