Meters are not just straight up kW/h devices. They can be used for power quality analysis, fault analysis, and whatever else the supplier can meter. http://www.

Meters are not just straight up kW/h devices. They can be used for power quality analysis, fault analysis, and whatever else the supplier can meter. http://www.selinc.com/metering/ http://www.selinc.com/metering/ Note that in certain deployments you might have meters operating as sensors (SCADA type setup), then some sort of central station running logic. So you of course can consider that an architecture for a hacker to exploit. For a brief note, this describes what happens: http://www.smartgridnews.com/artman/publish/commentary/Why_Your_Smart_Grid_Must_Start_with_Communications-526.html http://www.smartgridnews.com/artman/publish/commentary/Why_Y... You can find some information in relation to this here: http://blog.iec61850.com/ http://blog.iec61850.com/ which is run by http://nettedautomation.com/ http://nettedautomation.com/. Cybersecurity in the power industry is a rising wave. It's been growing, but Stuxnet really drew many eyes onto SCADA / power systems in the industry.