The smart grid is a new advanced electrical network promoted by the government to address environmental sustainability, energy generation, distribution and consumption efficiency issues. As one of the enabling technologies, Advanced Metering Infrastructure refers to systems which measure, collect and analyze energy usage, and interact with advanced devices such as smart meters through various c...

In the United States, when a consumer presents a payment to a merchant, the merchant typically makes a request for authorization before accepting the payment. Personal information, such as an account number, address, or telephone number, is often enough to initiate a payment. A serious weakness of this system is that criminals who obtain the correct personal information can impersonate an hones...

Water end-use disaggregation from smart-metered water consumption data is key to design water demand management strategies. Yet, despite large investments for smart metering networks, few water utilities are actually exploiting the potential of end-use-based consumer profiling. This is mostly due to the intrusiveness of existing disaggregation algorithms, which require intensive and time consum...

A system is characterized as a group of ideas, functions or instruments that performs a particular function when put together. In order to sustain a good system, the organization must put continuous effort not only into its technical management but also into keeping an ear to the voice of the customer (VOC) to produce its desired outcome. The outcome refers to the product or service by which an...

The smart grid architecture amalgamates the physical power grid and a communication grid into a single monolithic network. It poses several security threats that are well known (Li et al. in IEEE Trans Smart Grid 3:1540–1551, 2012 [1], McDaniel and McLaughlin in IEEE Secur Priv 7:75, 77, 2009 [2], Bisoi and Dash 2011 [3]). However, it faces unknown threats from the cyber-physical interfaces whe...

Compared to the conventional grid, the smart grid requires active participation of consumers to improve the quality and reliability of power delivery. Advanced metering infrastructure (AMI), commonly known as the smart meter, which has the capability of supporting various functions beyond that of recording energy usage, will facilitate this expected increase in consumer participation. Another p...

There has been an exponential growth of applications that rely on diverse types of embedded real-time end systems and devices, such as smart phones, play stations, home appliances, consumer and industrial electronics, smart sensors and actuators. These applications require diverse types of Quality-of-Service (QoS) including timeliness, dependability, security and privacy, from the end systems/d...