A Survey on Smart Metering Systems using Blockchain for E-Mobility

TL;DR

This paper surveys how blockchain technology can enhance smart metering systems to support electric vehicle integration, addressing challenges like secure measurement and flexible billing in e-mobility.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive review of blockchain-based smart metering solutions tailored for electric vehicle charging and energy management.

Findings

Blockchain improves security in smart metering.

Enhanced billing flexibility for electric vehicle users.

Potential for increased adoption of e-mobility solutions.

Abstract

Electricity is an essential comfort to support our daily activities. With the competitive increase and energy costs by the industry, new values and opportunities for delivering electricity to customers are produced. One of these new opportunities is electric vehicles. With the arrival of electric vehicles, various challenges and opportunities are being presented in the electric power system worldwide. For example, under the traditional electric power billing scheme, electric power has to be consumed where it is needed so that end-users could not charge their electric vehicles at different points (e.g. a relative's house) if this the correct user is not billed (this due to the high consumption of electrical energy that makes it expensive). To achieve electric mobility, they must solve new challenges, such as the smart metering of energy consumption and the cybersecurity of these measurements. The present work shows a study of the different smart metering technologies that use blockchain and other security mechanisms to achieve e-mobility.