As the legislative and regulatory drivers around smart meter data privacy continue to take shape, the transmission of energy consumption data is coming under increased scrutiny.
Landis+Gyr have invested significant effort to enhance their Gridstream® smart grid solution to include secure communications. This will help its customers comply with the requirements of the European Union directive on privacy and its recommendations for the rollout of smart metering systems.
The EU regulatory environment for smart meter security and privacy
Achieving interoperability in smart meter communications security
How using encrypted and authenticated messaging builds trust
The Gridstream solution secure communications implementation
The need to demonstrate trust has never been more important in smart meter rollouts as media exposure, privacy and legislative concerns rise.
Below is a presentation given by Christian Giroux, Solutions Product Manager, Smart Energy Solutions Landis+Gyr AG, at the European Utility Week 2014 in the session, 'Smart Meter Data Access'.
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Philip Mason manages security strategy within the Smart Energy Solutions group at Landis+Gyr. As well as focusing on the design of secure energy management systems, he closely follows the developing European regulatory environment concerning smart grid privacy and cyber security.
Christian Giroux oversees the evolution of Landis+Gyr’s Gridstream solution across EMEA. He manages the prioritization of business requirements from the market, coordinating features implementation end-to-end, in all affected products.
Prior to joining Landis+Gyr in 2010, Christian worked as the Head of Product Management for me2me AG, a subsidiary of Swisscom, developing services based on voice recognition and held the same role at Sicap AG, a vendor of mobile telephony prepaid platforms.
Christian holds a B.Eng. from the University of Sherbrooke in Quebec, Canada.