Addressing Situational Awareness in Critical Domains of a Smart Grid
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چکیده
Control and situational awareness are two very important aspects within critical control systems, since potential faults or anomalous behaviors could lead to serious consequences by hiding the real status of supervised critical infrastructures. Examples of these infrastructures are energy generation, transmission or distribution systems that belong to Smart Grid systems. Given the importance of these systems for social welfare and its economy, a situational awareness-based model, composed of a set of current technologies, is proposed in this paper. The model focuses on addressing and offering a set of minimum services for protection, such as prevention, detection, response, self-evaluation and maintenance, thereby providing a desirable protection in unplanned situations. Keyword: Critical Infrastructure Protection, Smart Grid, Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition Systems, Situational Awareness, and Wireless Sensor Networks
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