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Trade-offs between privacy and cost are studied for a smart grid consumer, whose electricity consumption is monitored in almost real time by the utility provider (UP) through smart meter (SM) readings. It is assumed that an electrical…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-02 Giulio Giaconi , Deniz Gunduz , H. Vincent Poor

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…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-19 Matthew Hale , Prabir Barooah , Kendall Parker , Kasra Yazdani

Integrating distributed energy resources (DERs) is a critical step toward addressing the global climate crisis. This transformation has driven the transition from traditional consumers to prosumers and given rise to new energy sharing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Yingshuo Gu , Xi Weng , Yue Chen

The modernization of the electrical grid and the installation of smart meters come with many advantages to control and monitoring. However, in the wrong hands, the data might pose a privacy threat. In this paper, we consider the tradeoff…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-05-28 Roy Dong , Alvaro A. Cárdenas , Lillian J. Ratliff , Henrik Ohlsson , S. Shankar Sastry

Energy disaggregation techniques, which use smart meter data to infer appliance energy usage, can provide consumers and energy companies valuable insights into energy management. However, these techniques also present privacy risks, such as…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Yashothara Shanmugarasa , M. A. P. Chamikara , Hye-young Paik , Salil S. Kanhere , Liming Zhu

One of the most far-reaching use cases of the internet of things is in smart grid and smart home operation. The smart home concept allows residents to control, monitor, and manage their energy consumption with minimum loss and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-11 S. Saba Rafiei , Mahdi S. Naderi , Mehrdad Abedi

Installing smart meters to publish real-time electricity rates has been controversial while it might lead to privacy concerns. Dispatched rates include fine-grained data on aggregate electricity consumption in a zone and could potentially…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-19 Mahrokh GhoddousiBoroujeni , Dominik Fay , Christos Dimitrakakis , Maryam Kamgarpour

With the development and introduction of smart metering, the energy information for costumers will change from infrequent manual meter readings to fine-grained energy consumption data. On the one hand these fine-grained measurements will…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-07-03 Dominik Egarter , Christoph Prokop , Wilfried Elmenreich

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

As smart grids are getting popular and being widely implemented, preserving the privacy of consumers is becoming more substantial. Power generation and pricing in smart grids depends on the continuously gathered information from the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-05-16 Alireza Ahadipour , Mojtaba Mohammadi , Alireza Keshavarz-Haddad

In smart grids, the use of smart meters to measure electricity consumption at a household level raises privacy concerns. To address them, researchers have designed various load hiding algorithms that manipulate the electricity consumption…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Vadim Arzamasov , Klemens Böhm

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…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Diego Labate , Dipanwita Thakur , Giancarlo Fortino

Smart meters play a crucial role in enhancing energy management and efficiency, but they raise significant privacy concerns by potentially revealing detailed user behaviors through energy consumption patterns. Recent scholarly efforts have…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-30 Ruichang Zhang , Youcheng Sun , Mustafa A. Mustafa

Highly accurate profiles of consumers daily energy usage are reported to power grid via smart meters which enables smart grid to effectively regulate power demand and supply. However, consumers energy consumption pattern can reveal personal…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Khadija Hafeez , Mubashir Husain Rehmani , Donna OShea

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 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

The rapidly growing penetration of renewable energy resources brings unprecedented challenges to power distribution networks - management of a large population of grid-tied controllable devices encounters control scalability crises and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-06 Xiang Huo , Mingxi Liu

End-user privacy in smart meter measurements is a well-known challenge in the smart grid. The solutions offered thus far have been tied to specific technologies such as batteries or assumptions on data usage. Existing solutions have also…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 S. Raj Rajagopalan , Lalitha Sankar , Soheil Mohajer , H. Vincent Poor

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