Paving the road toward Smart Grids through large-scale advanced metering infrastructures

- The paper is focused on an actual large-scale AMI deployment in Spain.
- We present the communications architecture and technologies deployed in the field.
- We analyze how they fit some key requirements of this kind of infrastructures.
- We present the services which are currently being operated and the foreseen ones.
- We discuss the state of the art and current trends in AMI from the ICT perspective.