The smart meters in electricity grids enable fine-grained consumption monitoring. Thus, suppliers could adjust their tariffs. However, as smart meters are deployed within the smart grid field, authentication and key establishment between smart grid parties (smart meters, aggregators, and servers) become an urgency. Besides, as privacy is becoming a big concern for smart meters, smart grid parti...

Author: Andre Szykier CEO/CTO GridPlex Networks LLC Copyright © 2010 P ag e1 Demand Response and Grid Management are power utility initiatives driven by Federal and State stimulus programs to make the electric grid more reliable, secure and intelligent. The first step in making a grid “smart” is by replacing existing end user power utility meters with smart meters that support bi-directional co...

Recently many significant improvements have been done in traditionally power system. But still a lot of work is needed in traditional power system to mend many challenges. We propose formal method based on subnet model for smart power system. Formal method is mathematics based technique that is used to develop, specify and verify model in a systematic manner. It involve components i.e., power p...

In traditional power networks, Distribution System Operators (DSOs) used to monitor energy flows on a mediumor high-voltage level for an ensemble of consumers and the low-voltage grid was regarded as a black box. However, electric utilities nowadays obtain ever more precise information from single consumers connected to the lowand medium-voltage grid thanks to smart meters (SMs). This allows a ...

Smart meters are assumed to contribute to energy conservation by providing updated consumption data to energy utilities, but, given their pervasive presence in consumers’ homes, they could also provide timely feedback to energy consumers/users. A precondition, however, is that smart meters are really usable to lay consumers. In the present study 40 participants were videorecorded while performi...

This paper studies the security requirements for remote authentication and communication in smart grid systems. Though smart card based authentication techniques have been a successful solution for addressing key management challenges in several cryptographic authentication systems, they may not be applicable to smart grid systems. For example, in order to unlock the credentials stored in tampe...

In this paper a framework is presented based on 4G Cognitive Radio (CR) network capable of communicating with high numbers of geographically dispersed smart meters for command and control feature concurrently with private cellular network. Our approach uses pervasive smart grid systems (i.e. cloud data centers) as the central communication and optimization infrastructure supporting metropolitan...

This study proposes a data-driven approach to enable the self-management capability of local energy communities (LECs) via transformer congestion monitoring in low-voltage distribution networks. A set regression models is adopted this approach, while data from residential smart meters (SMs) leveraged. Four machine learning algorithms, namely ridge regression, support vector random forest (RFR) ...

Growing concerns about climate change and energy security have led to a strong focus on energy efficiency within UK energy policy. At the same time, information and communication technologies (ICTs) have become pervasive in society and this has brought with it new policy options which use them as enabling technologies. One such policy option planned for implementation in the UK is the use of sm...