Adaptive Multivariate Data Compression in Smart Metering Internet of Things

Abstract

Recent advances in electric metering infrastructure have given rise to the generation of gigantic chunks of data. Transmission of all of these data certainly poses a significant challenge in bandwidth and storage constrained Internet of Things (IoT), where smart meters act as sensors. In this work, a novel multivariate data compression scheme is proposed for smart metering IoT. The proposed algorithm exploits the cross correlation between different variables sensed by smart meters to reduce the dimension of data. Subsequently, sparsity in each of the decorrelated streams is utilized for temporal compression. To examine the quality of compression, the multivariate data is characterized using multivariate normal-autoregressive integrated moving average modeling before compression as well as after reconstruction of the compressed data. Our performance studies indicate that compared to the state-of-the-art, the proposed technique is able to achieve impressive bandwidth saving for transmission of data over communication network without compromising faithful reconstruction of data at the receiver. The proposed algorithm is tested in a real smart metering setup and its time complexity is also analyzed.