  The increase in the production and collection of data from devices is an
ongoing trend due to the roll-out of more cyber-physical applications. Smart
meters, because of their importance in power grids, are a class of such devices
whose produced data requires meticulous processing. In this paper, we use
Unicage, a data processing system based on classic Unix shell scripting, that
delivers excellent performance in a simple package. We use this methodology to
process smart meter data in XML format, subjected to the constraints posed by a
real use case. We develop a solution that parses, validates and performs a
simple aggregation of 27 million XML files in less than 10 minutes. We present
a study of the solution as well as the benefits of its adoption.
