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Smart meters (SMs) measure and report users' energy consumption to the utility provider (UP) in almost real-time, providing a much more detailed depiction of the consumer's energy consumption compared to their analog counterparts. This…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-08-04 Jesus Gomez-Vilardebo , Deniz Gündüz

Access to smart meter data offers system-wide benefits but raises significant privacy concerns due to the personal information it contains. Privacy-preserving techniques could facilitate wider access, though they introduce privacy-utility…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Saurab Chhachhi , Fei Teng

In recent years, many proposals have arisen from research on privacy in smart metering. In one of the considered approaches, referred to as anonymization, smart meters transmit fine-grained electricity consumption values in such a way that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-02-13 Santi Martínez , Francesc Sebé , Christoph Sorge

Fine-grained Smart Meters (SMs) data recording and communication has enabled several features of Smart Grids (SGs) such as power quality monitoring, load forecasting, fault detection, and so on. In addition, it has benefited the users by…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-17 Mohammadhadi Shateri , Francisco Messina , Pablo Piantanida , Fabrice Labeau

Traditional electricity meters are replaced by Smart Meters in customers' households. Smart Meters collects fine-grained utility consumption profiles from customers, which in turn enables the introduction of dynamic, time-of-use tariffs.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2011-03-02 Marek Jawurek , Martin Johns , Florian Kerschbaum

A battery charging policy that provides privacy guarantees for smart meter systems with finite capacity battery is proposed. For this policy an upper bound on the information leakage rate is provided. The upper bound applies for general…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-16 Miguel Arrieta , Inaki Esnaola

A smart meter (SM) measures a consumer's electricity consumption and reports it automatically to a utility provider (UP) in almost real time. Despite many advantages of SMs, their use also leads to serious concerns about consumer privacy.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-30 Giulio Giaconi , Deniz Gunduz , H. Vincent Poor

Due to the recent popularity of online social networks, coupled with people's propensity to disclose personal information in an effort to achieve certain gratifications, the problem of navigating the tradeoff between privacy and utility…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-12 Chandra Sharma , George Amariucai

This paper investigates smart home energy management in consideration of tradeoffs between residential privacy and energy costs. A multiobjective approach that minimizes energy costs and maximizes privacy protection is proposed. The…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-16 Hsuan-Hao Chang , Wei-Yu Chiu , Hongjian Sun , Chia-Ming Chen

In smart grid, large quantities of data is collected from various applications, such as smart metering substation state monitoring, electric energy data acquisition, and smart home. Big data acquired in smart grid applications usually is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-11-19 Zhitao Guan , Guanlin Si , Xiaojiang Du , Peng Liu

Power consumption data is very useful as it allows to optimize power grids, detect anomalies and prevent failures, on top of being useful for diverse research purposes. However, the use of power consumption data raises significant privacy…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-29 Ganesh Del Grosso , Georg Pichler , Pablo Piantanida

Smart grids leverage data from smart meters to improve operations management and to achieve cost reductions. The fine-grained meter data also enable pricing schemes that simultaneously benefit electricity retailers and users. Our goal is to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Daniel Reijsbergen , Zheng Yang , Aung Maw , Tien Tuan Anh Dinh , Jianying Zhou

Most of the smart applications, such as smart energy metering devices, demand strong privacy preservation to strengthen data privacy. However, it is difficult to protect the privacy of the smart device data, especially on the client side.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Venkatesh Kumar M

Smart grids feature a bidirectional flow of electricity and data, enhancing flexibility, efficiency, and reliability in increasingly volatile energy grids. However, data from smart meters can reveal sensitive private information.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-25 Jonas von der Heyden , Nils Schlüter , Philipp Binfet , Martin Asman , Markus Zdrallek , Tibor Jager , Moritz Schulze Darup

Smart-meters are a key component of energy transition. The large amount of data collected in near real-time allows grid operators to observe and simulate network states. However, privacy-preserving rules forbid the use of such data for any…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-08 Jordan Holweger , Lionel Bloch , Christophe Ballif , Nicolas Wyrsch

This paper presents a new privacy-preserving smart metering system. Our scheme is private under the differential privacy model and therefore provides strong and provable guarantees. With our scheme, an (electricity) supplier can…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-01-13 Gergely Acs , Claude Castelluccia

Advances in sensing and communication capabilities as well as power industry deregulation are driving the need for distributed state estimation in the smart grid at the level of the regional transmission organizations (RTOs). This leads to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Lalitha Sankar , Soummya Kar , Ravi Tandon , H. Vincent Poor

We study the privacy-cost trade-off in a smart meter (SM) system with a renewable energy source (RES) and a finite-capacity rechargeable battery (RB). Privacy is measured by the mutual information rate between the energy demand and the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-22 Ecenaz Erdemir , Pier Luigi Dragotti , Deniz Gunduz

The roll-out of smart meters in electricity networks introduces risks for consumer privacy due to increased measurement frequency and granularity. Through various Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring techniques, consumer behavior may be inferred…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-28 Jun-Xing Chin , Tomas Tinoco De Rubira , Gabriela Hug

In this paper we propose a novel protocol that allows suppliers and grid operators to collect users' aggregate metering data in a secure and privacy-preserving manner. We use secure multiparty computation to ensure privacy protection. In…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-03-15 Mustafa A. Mustafa , Sara Cleemput , Abelrahaman Aly , Aysajan Abidin