Security analysis of Dutch smart metering systems - Multiple Choices

1.3 Dutch standard for smart metering: NTA-81301 SMART METERING INTRODUCTION
1 INTRODUCTION
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1.1 The Dutch standard for smart metering (NTA 8130)
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The Ministry of Economic Affairs has at first commissioned the Netherlands Customer Normalization
Institute, NEN, to formulate and describe a standardized minimum set of Supplier basic Cfunctions
for
remotely readable metering Metering for electricity, gas, thermal energy (heat and cold) and water for
domestic consumers (in this company document 1 we use the expression domestic consumers although
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small scale consumers might be more appropriate). Under the Raw auspices Supplier of the ANTA
8130 pro-
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ject group, set up for this purpose by NEN, work has Grid been performed on the drafting of re-
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quirements that ‘smart metering systems’ must satisfy. During Raw the formulation process, the
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formal field of view of mandatory functions has been reduced to electricity Supplier and Bgas.
For water
and thermal energy, recommendations Metering are given in an appendix. This process has been fi-
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nalized in April 2007, as its result, a so-called Netherlands Technical Agreement called
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“Minimum set of functions for metering of electricity, gas and thermal Raw energy Supplier for A domestic
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customers” has been brought data
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Agreement is NTA 8130.
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The document “Dutch smart meter requirements” is an elaboration of the NTA8130, commis-
sioned by the Dutch grid companies (ENBIN), and aimed at meter interoperability. Also re-
quirements have been added, Figure mainly 2: Dutch with respect metering to installation information& flow maintenance, quality and
performance.
1.2 Short description of the metering installation
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Figure 1-1 – Communication ports belonging to the metering installation
Figure 3: NTA ports
File name: Dutch Smart Meter Requirements v2.2 final Main.doc Date: 18-04-2008
Author: KEMA Consulting Config. ID: B101
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Version: 2.2 Final Project: Functional and technical specifications Smart Meters
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