Secure Transmission of Data in Smart Grid with the Aid of Elliptic Curve Cryptography Method

A smart grid represents a straightforward improvement of a power grid, which effectively hands over electricity from suppliers to clients. It generally uses a two-way digital communication with an eye on managing the devices at client households. They are also competent to conserve energy, scale down overhead costs and to enhance consistency and lucidity. It is home to smart meters, which pave the way for communication with the main central system. As against home energy monitors, smart meters are capable of collecting data for distant reporting. The distribution or receipt of the data is very safely carried out to safeguard the confidentiality of the client power utilization and also to ensure continuous power distribution. Therefore, the cryptography technique is effectively used for increasing the safety and for furnishing the consistent power supply for the uninterrupted power distribution. The Elliptic Curve Cryptography offers a superlative solution to the data encryption in addition to safeguarding key transportation between two communicating parties. It comes out with flying colors in wholly satisfying the power needs during all times of the entire nodes of the grid by deftly employing the power requirement data sent from any main node to the main central system. The convincing outcomes underscore the fact that the elliptic curve cryptography technique is competent to deliver the protected and secure data communication vis-à-vis parallel techniques such as the RSA and Affine techniques. . The innovative ECC approach fantastically succeeds in ushering in a whopping precision to the tune of 94.603% of the encrypted message visà-vis peer techniques which obtain an exactness of less than 90.988% for RSA and 80% for Affine approaches.