Tuxera
Tuxera's power fail-safe storage management and secure networking solutions extends smart meter lifespans, and improves data resiliency.

Management Platform Extends Smart-Meter Lifespans

March 18, 2025
In addition to extending smart-meter lifetime by 50%, from 20 to 30 years, Tuxera's solution improves data resiliency.

Offering resilient and secure data storage management and networking solutions to safeguard revenue-grade meter data, Tuxera’s management solutions enhance smart meter and advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) industries. The ability to optimize file systems, flash storage, and networking performance to reinforce data integrity, increase device lifetimes, and secure operations ensures smart-meter data is safely stored and secured.

Smart-metering deployments are challenged by unreliable data, insecure communications, and high device replacement costs, requiring longer lifetimes and cybersecurity protections. Tuxera addresses these challenges with software techniques for data storage management and networking.

For example, Dynamic Transaction Point copy-on-write technology provides more design flexibility and control over data-at-risk during sudden power interruptions and ungraceful shutdowns. And reduced write amplification minimizes wear on flash storage, increasing its lifetime. Tree-based allocation accelerates file operations up to 100X faster than other methods, and secure networking stacks (TCP/IP) and the CryptoCore cryptographic library ensures data is protected against cyberattacks and transferred efficiently.

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About the Author

Alix Paultre | Editor-at-Large, Microwaves & RF

Alix is Editor-at-Large for Microwaves & RF

An Army veteran, Alix Paultre was a signals intelligence soldier on the East/West German border in the early ‘80s, and eventually wound up helping launch and run a publication on consumer electronics for the U.S. military stationed in Europe. Alix first began in this industry in 1998 at Electronic Products magazine, and since then has worked for a variety of publications, most recently as Editor-in-Chief of Power Systems Design.

Alix currently lives in Wiesbaden, Germany.

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