Smart meters promise to sweep away energy inefficiencies by allowing users to monitor, control and optimize their energy usage remotely. Unfortunately, those virtues come at the expense of reduced security, leaving open hacker backdoors that enable snooping, fraud and criminal tampering with safety systems.
To remedy these concerns, Freescale Semiconductor Inc. (Austin, Texas) partnered with Inside Secure (Aix-en-Provence, France) in a smart-meter reference design that cure these security ills with near field communication (NFC) technology that has already been proven in the banking industry.
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