Tuxera extends smart meter lifespans, improves data resiliency

Customer reports smart meter design lifetime extended by 50%, from 20 to 30 years, using Tuxera technologies. Tuxera demonstrates power fail-safe storage management and secure networking solutions at Embedded World 2025.

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.

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.

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