Smart Metering Information Management

Security and Smart Metering

The ‘smart grid’ is an upgrade of the existing 20th century electrical power grid, promoted to address the pressing issues of end-user energy monitoring, global warming, distributed power generation and emergency response. Smart grids are quickly spawning in Australia, Europe and North America. Security in smart grids is imperative to protect the functionality of their underlying networks, the ...

DREAM: DiffeRentially privatE smArt Metering

This paper presents a new privacy-preserving smart metering system. Our scheme is private under the differential privacy model and therefore provides strong and provable guarantees. With our scheme, an (electricity) supplier can periodically collect data from smart meters and derive aggregated statistics while learning only limited information about the activities of individual households. For ...

Privacy Strategies in Smart Metering

This paper discusses the threat to privacy that smart meters pose and offers solutions that protect user privacy without diminishing the provider’s capabilities to use the data for legitimate purposes. Two use cases are considered: collection of aggregated real-time data by the provider for optimization, and monthly billing of customers. For the first, we present various approaches before propo...

Privacy in Smart Metering Ecosystems

While smart metering is a key technology for reaching a sustainable consumption of resources, smart buildings are on their way to provide ubiquitous home automation. These technologies combine to frame a smart metering ecosystem with corresponding services and business models introducing new security challenges including privacy protection. This paper outlines a novel approach to provide custom...

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