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Load curve data in power systems refers to users' electrical energy consumption data periodically collected with meters. It has become one of the most important assets for modern power systems. Many operational decisions are made based on…

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Smart power grids offer to revolutionize power distribution by sharing granular power usage data, though this same data sharing can reveal a great deal about users, and there are serious privacy concerns for customers. In this paper, we…

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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…

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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

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

Integration of electronics-based residential appliances and distributed energy resources in homes is expected to rise with grid decarbonization. These devices may introduce significant harmonics into power networks that need to be closely…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-08 Ankit Singhal , Dexin Wang , Andrew P. Reiman , Yuan Liu , Donald J. Hammerstrom , Soumya Kundu

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…

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Energy theft poses a significant threat to the stability and efficiency of smart grids, leading to substantial economic losses and operational challenges. Traditional centralized machine learning approaches for theft detection require…

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The wide adoption of smart meters makes residential load data available and thus improves the understanding of the energy consumption behavior. Many existing studies have focused on smart-meter data analysis, but the drivers of energy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Zhuo Wei , Hao Wang

Electricity consumed by residential consumers counts for a significant part of global electricity consumption and utility companies can collect high-resolution load data thanks to the widely deployed advanced metering infrastructure. There…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Hao Wang , Gonzague Henri , Chin-Woo Tan , Ram Rajagopal

The emergence of smart grids and advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) has revolutionized energy management. Unlike traditional power grids, smart grids benefit from two-way communication through AMI, which surpasses earlier automated…

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Smart Meters (SMs) are able to share the power consumption of users with utility providers almost in real-time. These fine-grained signals carry sensitive information about users, which has raised serious concerns from the privacy…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-29 Mohammadhadi Shateri , Francisco Messina , Pablo Piantanida , Fabrice Labeau

Energy has been increasingly generated or collected by different entities on the power grid (e.g., universities, hospitals and householdes) via solar panels, wind turbines or local generators in the past decade. With local energy, such…

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Smart meter devices enable a better understanding of the demand at the potential risk of private information leakage. One promising solution to mitigating such risk is to inject noises into the meter data to achieve a certain level of…

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The smart meter data analysis contributes to better planning and operations for the power system. This study aims to identify the drivers of residential energy consumption patterns from the socioeconomic perspective based on the consumption…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Wenjun Tang , Hao Wang , Xian-Long Lee , Hong-Tzer Yang

The widespread popularity of smart meters enables an immense amount of fine-grained electricity consumption data to be collected. Meanwhile, the deregulation of the power industry, particularly on the delivery side, has continuously been…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Yi Wang , Qixin Chen , Tao Hong , Chongqing Kang

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

Smart grid, through networked smart meters employing the non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM) technique, can considerably discern the usage patterns of residential appliances. However, this technique also incurs privacy leakage. To address…

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A significant amount of research has been conducted in order to make home appliances more efficient in terms of energy usage. Various techniques have been designed and implemented in order to control the power demand and supply. This paper…

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