Date:	Ongoing
Project leader:	David Wallom, Andrew Martin

In collaboration with British Gas, G4S, EDMI Smart Meters, The DIET project supports the development of new services to investigate coordinated analysis streams of consumption and logging data produced by smart meters.

Building on the EPSRC Advanced Dynamic Energy Pricing & Tariffs (ADEPT) and the 'Working with Infrastructure Creation of Knowledge Energy strategy Development (WICKED) projects we have developed a number of different analytic techniques from which we can match consumption to customer behaviour at the whole premises scale as well as full understand the different resolutions of data required for different levels of insight. Building on these two projects we are working through InnovateUK funding on the Data Insight against Energy Theft (DIET, 15-17) which also takes forward the established relationship with the energy sector, to develop an approach using smart meter logging and error messages alongside meter consumption data to identifying potential energy theft and faulty equipment by examining changes in data through time. The project will analyse data collected from a pool of SME electricity meters with a view to developing a reusable method for the domestic market operation.

These streams of meter status and error messages that are not normally retrieved give details on the physical environment of the meters and in conjunction with consumption data will enable creation of richer and more in-depth knowledge of system behaviour. The primary aim of these analytics are to discover and then recognise signatures for two different classes of events, possible meter failure scenarios and warnings on the occurrence of patterns indicative of meter attack/tamper.

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http://www.oerc.ox.ac.uk/projects/diet-different-approach-smart-meter-data-insight-against-energy-theft