The three companies expect the new offering will promote faster and broader deployment of advanced metering management (AMM) devices and services based on open standards, thereby responding to a compelling customer demand. 'Iskraemeco, Itron and Landis+Gyr today announced a significant initiative in the development of interoperable smart meters supporting utility applications. 'Gridstream offers the ability to add third-party components to the IT infrastructure, including a Key Manager from RSA Laboratories and SafeNetвЂ™s Hardware Security Module (HSM).вЂ™ (ibid, page 4) It is built on the premise of openness: open architecture, open collaboration and open standards to bring the strongest security mechanisms for protecting the interests of utilities and end users.вЂ™ Reference (page 5) The Gridstream security solution is based on industry accepted security protocols and standards. 'Landis+Gyr strongly believes in establishing an open and mature security process.

Additionally, the FIPS 140-2 validated SafeNet Hardware Security Module allows Landis+Gyr customers to securely store cryptographic keys used to digitally sign downstream messages and commands in order to provide a strong root of trust among the head-end system and the RF devices in the network.вЂ™ Reference вЂThe Gridstream RF solution provides NSA Suite B approved non-proprietary cryptographic algorithms and proven RSA key management appliances for key storage, generation and scalable encryption/decryption processing capabilities. (enter: TEB, then: вЂ™-HUNTSU864вЂ™)ДЄccording to Landis+Gyr public documentation:

According to FCC, range is 902-928 mHz, output watts: 0.56.

Includes: FCC ID: TEB-HUNTSU864, IC: 5931A-HUNTSU864 (RF module).

Landis+Gyr Gridstream RF, Type: FOCUS AXR-SD, module model 26-1552.

I would however require to have open and freely accessible standards, since implementing good cryptography is difficult and audit by (academic or private) researchers should be welcomed. I personally do not have an opinion on whether we should or should not use these specific counters. Unfortunately, to read those standards, one must pay a fair amount of money. The communication protocols do use standards that are documented (IDIS/DLMS-UA). HereвЂ™s a a great 31c3 presentation on an unrelated topic: SCADA StrangeLove: Too Smart Grid in da Cloud (this does not affect HQ smart meters, just food for thought regarding often poor security practices of grid devices). The initial claims from Hydro-QuГ©bec were very vague and they somehow thought industry standards should be secret, which is never a good sign in security, even (or perhaps especially) for large scale data monitoring. I was interested by the privacy of the counters.

If youвЂ™re so worried about your health, perhaps start with the excessive amounts of automobile pollution in and around Montreal. Those claims have been debunked multiple times. NB: I have zero interest in the health concerns of the counters. The combination of the FOCUS Service Disconnect base module and powerful AX. The E330 FOCUSВ® AX and E350 FOCUS AX-SD advanced function residential meters surpass other meters in their class to deliver options you need for a highly functional and affordable metering solution. The SmartMeterв„ў electric meter by Landis + Gyr uses a digital readout. The owner of the premises where a smart meter is located might hack the device to alter transmissions so that use is under-reported and will be billed for accordingly. The above image is from a Hydro-QuГ©bec report to the Commission d'accГЁs Г l'information, linked below.ДЇocus Axr-sd Meter Hack Rating: 4,2/5 9366 votes Smart meter hacking is usually conducted for one of two purposes. All of it is public information and mostly obvious, I just needed somewhere to document it (unfortunately, the specification itself of the counters is not free, so I have not published any information about that).

Notes below are bits of information that I found about Landis+Gyr Gridstream RF electric counters.

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