Framework For Securing Automatic Meter Reading Using Blockchain Technology

Abstract

The Automatic Meter Reading (AMR) for energy consumption is one of the most important issues in smart cities, as meters and electricity companies suffer from insecurity. One of the most common attacks is a denial of service attack that threatens all users as well as mainly threatens data security, storage and availability as well as the man in the middle attack affecting data validity and integrity. The Internet of Things (IoT) can be used to achieve effective and reliable AMR in real time. The security issues in such a system are critical and very important to implement in the AMR and IoT based system. Blockchain is a very advanced technology and technology that can be used to secure events and transactions such as meter readings and meter control. It is based on the idea of sequencing data blocks in a secure and distributed manner. The blockchain representing the data in each block (reading the meter for example). The block is created and verified by many devices distributed on a network. Blockchain can be implemented in various ways and environments such as the Ethereum platform. In this thesis, we will present a new automated meter reading platform using blockchain technology to meet the complete security requirements of AMR systems. When DoS attack was launched, these servers did not respond to the attacker’s vi requests, so these requests did not affect the data itself, but the response speed of the blockchain network to incoming transactions from the servers was reduced very slightly. And MiM attack did not affect the proposed work. As the attacker could not understand the nature of the data coming from the meters and also could not change the data saved within the blockchain network. The simulation results show that the proposed solutions achieve a reasonable detection rate for these attacks. In addition, the results show that Blockchain could provide a promising technology that can participate in securing network meters.