The Web on the meter: IPv6, REST, and other enabling technologies

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Many efforts are currently going towards networking smart electricity meters on a global scale. Rather than exposing their data and functionality through proprietary and tightly-coupled interfaces, smart meter shall soon become fully web-enabled devices. In this way, smart meters applications can be programmed using popular web languages (e.g., HTML, JavaScript, php) and well-know web primitives (e.g., browsing, bookmarking, caching) can be leveraged to implement mechanisms for handling electricity consumption data. Furthermore, once "on the web" smart meters can be integrated in existing frameworks, like social networks or data visualization platforms.

In this talk, we will first provide an overview of existing technologies that can support the integration of smart meters into the web. In particular, we will discuss the IPv6 lowpan protocol, the use of a resource oriented architecture (REST) and the use of WS-* standard web services. We will analyze these techniques in terms of ease of use, integration and security and present examples of innovative applications built on top of web-enabled smart meters.

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