How To Crack Prepaid Electricity Meters VERIFIED

But here's a tip. If your smart meter has the ability to record energy readings for one week at once, and you save it in a text file, you can read the information back on your Mac. Just be sure to turn off the power to your smart meter when you're done.

Backed by a full-time team of PhD-level researchers, the company had a year-long data-capture window to develop and test its algorithms and software. After that, it needed to develop and test its algorithms and software within a very tight release schedule. FIVOX has been flying under the radar since only being in operation for a little over a year.

"There's no official list of vulnerabilities that's public, but the researchers have plenty of experience. They might even have some information that would be helpful in your projects too," Pattabiraman said.

"What was new was the data that we were able to capture, and in particular, how we were able to work with that data to develop an accurate fingerprint that accurately identified what was happening in your home or business."

The researchers said it paid off. FIVOX was able to capture 258,957 unique fingerprints, and the majority of those fingerprints (85.2 percent) were of stolen power, from illegal units or theft. In the remaining 8.8 percent, it was theft from a legitimate account.

The FIVOX was the first DIY burglar-alarm detector that analyzed time-series data. It spits out an alarm if the algorithm detects suspicious patterns. When it's set to record data from an appliance, it can note whether those devices break down or are tampered with on an almost real time basis. Each appliance has its own alarm code -- if it's constantly tripped, then something's suspicious. d2c66b5586