Secure communications in the smart grid

This paper focuses on deployment of smart meters in the power distribution systems to enhance the operation infrastructure. An important challenge in establishing a communication paradigm between the utilities and the customers is that customers are susceptible to privacy concerns. In this paper, we...

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Main Authors: Naruchitparames, Jeff, Gunes, Mehmet Hadi, Evrenosoglu, Cansin Yaman
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Cryptography
Power demand
Power industry
Privacy
Smart grids
Wide area networks
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Summary:This paper focuses on deployment of smart meters in the power distribution systems to enhance the operation infrastructure. An important challenge in establishing a communication paradigm between the utilities and the customers is that customers are susceptible to privacy concerns. In this paper, we present a model to ensure the privacy and integrity of communicating parties within the smart grid by using smart meters as a gateway between intra- and inter-network communications. In particular, we utilize the smart meter as a firewall to manage incoming and outgoing traffic and mediate household devices based on the instructions from the electric utility. Moreover, third parties are introduced in our model such as service providers so that they can monitor and manage the contracted customers by using the existing communication infrastructure.
ISSN:2331-9852
DOI:10.1109/CCNC.2011.5766362