Intelligent and secure automatic energy meters reading and management using mobile agents can be of great importance for municipalities and energy distribution companies so as to efficiently read these meters and to decrease the number of traditional visits required by the energy company, and decreasing the number of employees used in performing this traditional time consuming and high cost work [1, 3, 5]. In this work we will start by reviewing the current technologies and techniques used in securely handling remote meter reading and management using mobile agents. A more detailed simulation results for different configurations and techniques of secure automatic energy meter reading and management systems using mobile agents will be presented and compared to traditional client-server techniques. These results will be presented in two parts, the first part will consist of OPNET simulation results for our system, and the second part will present the results of the secure system using java agent development environment (JADE).

Keywords: Automatic Meter Reading (AMR), Mobile agents, Client server, JADE (Java agent development environment), OPNET.