Reliability Estimation of a Smart Metering Architecture using a Monte Carlo Simulation Topics: Architecture for secure and interactive IoT; Internet of Things; IoT Services and Applications; Modeling, Experiments, Sharing Technologies & Platforms; Networking and Social Networks; Performance Evaluation and Modeling ; Sensor Networks, Remote Diagnosis and Development; Sensors; Smart City Examples and Case Studies; Systems for IoT and Services Computing; Technological focus for Smart Environments In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Internet of Things, Big Data and Security IoTBDS - Volume 1, 47-54, 2022