Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI), seen as foundation for overall grid modernization, is an integration of many technologies that provides an intelligent connection between consumers and system operators [ami 2008]. One of the biggest challenge that AMI faces is to scalable collect and manage a huge amount of data from a large number of customers. In our paper, we address this challenge by...

Many important distribution network applications, such as load balancing, state-estimation, and network reconfiguration, depend on accurate phase connectivity information. The existing data-driven phase identification algorithms have a few drawbacks. First, the existing algorithms require the number of phase connections as an input. Second, they can not provide accurate results when there is a ...

Cyber attacks on critical infrastructure have been an issue of importance in industry over the past several years, as well as a focus of academic research. Cyber attacks of various types and magnitude have been on the rise targeted specifically at power grids. A successful attack on the power grid could result in significant impacts including grid shutdown, cascading failures, damage to the inf...

Advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) is considered to be the first step in constructing smart grid. AMI allows customers to make real-time choices about power utilization and enables power utilities to increase the effectiveness of the regional power grids by managing demand load during peak times and reducing unneeded power generation. These initiatives rely heavily on the prompt information...

Citation Amin, Saurabh, Galina A. Schwartz, Alvaro A. Cardenas, and S. Shankar Sastry. “Game-Theoretic Models of Electricity Theft Detection in Smart Utility Networks: Providing New Capabilities with Advanced Metering Infrastructure.” IEEE Control Syst. 35, no. 1 (February 2015): 66–81. As Published http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MCS.2014.2364711 Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Eng...

Advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) subsystems monitor and control energy distribution through exchange of information between smart meters and utility networks. A key challenge is how to select a cost-effective communication system without compromising the performance of the applications. Current communication technologies were developed for conventional data networks with different require...