HELSINKI, March 10, 2025—As smart meter manufacturers seek new ways to offer value to energy utility companies, Tuxera reaffirms its commitment to delivering resilient and secure data storage management and networking solutions to safeguard revenue-grade meter data. Tuxera’s extensive experience with file systems, flash storage, and networking brings benefits—full data integrity, longer lifetimes, and fail-safe operations—to the smart meter and advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) industries through proven technologies.
“Energy utilities want consistent and secure access to smart meter data over operational lifetimes of fifteen years or more,” said Marko Finnig, VP, Embedded Solutions at Tuxera. “Our solutions are power-fail safe and built to last, giving smart meter manufacturers the confidence to meet the requirements set by energy utility companies. We ensure smart meter data is safely stored and secured so that utilities can run their businesses without unexpected, costly surprises.”
Better data integrity for better decisions
Utility companies know the benefits of smart metering technology in monitoring, control, billing, and sustainability, but they are plagued by unreliable data, insecure communications, and high device replacement costs. Additionally, customers and governments demand longer lifetimes and cybersecurity protections that outpace the capabilities of traditional storage technologies.
Tuxera addresses these challenges by bringing innovative software techniques to data storage management and networking that include:
- Dynamic Transaction Point™ copy-on-write technology to provide more design flexibility and control over data-at-risk during sudden power interruptions and ungraceful shutdowns
- Reduced write amplification to minimize wear on flash storage, thereby increasing its lifetime
- Tree-based allocation to accelerate file operations up to 100 times faster than other methods for more responsive user experiences
- Secure networking stacks (TCP/IP) and the CryptoCore cryptographic library to ensure data is protected against cyberattacks and transferred efficiently
Smart-meter lifetime was proven to extend to nearly 30 years in simulated testing with more than a billion NAND flash transactions in independent testing by a Tuxera customer.
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About Tuxera
Tuxera is the leading provider of quality-assured file systems, software flash controllers, and networking and connectivity solutions. Our software is in mission-critical systems around the world. We make sure data is secure, accessible, and intact precisely when you need it.
Tuxera’s customers include car makers, device manufacturers, industrial equipment manufacturers, data-driven enterprises, cloud storage vendors, and many more. We help them solve complex challenges involving data in all its states – at rest, in use, and in motion. You can also find us as members of JEDEC, COVESA, SD Association, The Linux Foundation, and other industry associations. Founded in 2008, Tuxera’s headquarters are in Finland, with regional offices in China, Germany, Hungary, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and the US.
