Method for communication of energy consumption-specific measurement data elements between a smart meter device and a computer system of a utility company and/or operator of a measuring system

• Main Authors: DIETRICH FRANK, PAESCHKE MANFRED
• Format: Patent
• Language: Chinese; English
• Published: 08.10.2014
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; DATA PROCESSING SYSTEMS OR METHODS, SPECIALLY ADAPTED FORADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORYOR FORECASTING PURPOSES; ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; ELECTRICITY; PHYSICS; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE,COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORY OR FORECASTINGPURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS

The invention relates to a method for communicating energy consumption-specific measurement data elements detected by a smart meter (142; 144; 146; 148) between a smart meter device (138; 142; 144; 146; 148) and a first computer system (166) of a utility company and/or operator of a measuring system, the device (138; 142; 144; 146; 148) having a security module (100), said security module (100) serving as the sole communication interface of the device (138; 142; 144; 146; 148) with the first computer system (166), the device having configuration data required for its operation, and the device being associated with an indication (125) of those measurement data elements and/or configuration data for which the first computer system (166) has a read access authorization, the method comprising the steps of: establishing a first communication channel between the first computer system (166) and the security module (100); mutually authenticating the computer system (166) and the security module (100), authentication