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Generative models such as the variational autoencoder (VAE) and the generative adversarial networks (GAN) have proven to be incredibly powerful for the generation of synthetic data that preserves statistical properties and utility of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-29 Moustafa Alzantot , Luis Garcia , Mani Srivastava

Autonomous driving techniques have been flourishing in recent years while thirsting for huge amounts of high-quality data. However, it is difficult for real-world datasets to keep up with the pace of changing requirements due to their…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-29 Zhihang Song , Zimin He , Xingyu Li , Qiming Ma , Ruibo Ming , Zhiqi Mao , Huaxin Pei , Lihui Peng , Jianming Hu , Danya Yao , Yi Zhang

The collection of electrical consumption time series through smart meters grows with ambitious nationwide smart grid programs. This data is both highly sensitive and highly valuable: strong laws about personal data protect it while laws…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Antonin Voyez , Tristan Allard , Gildas Avoine , Pierre Cauchois , Elisa Fromont , Matthieu Simonin

In the present paper, we introduce a new method for the automated generation of residential distribution grid models based on novel building load estimation methods and a two-stage optimization for the generation of the 20 kV and 400 V grid…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Moritz Weber , Luc Janecke , Hüseyin K. Çakmak , Veit Hagenmeyer

Smart meter data is the foundation for planning and operating the distribution network. Unfortunately, such data are not always available due to privacy regulations. Meanwhile, the collected data may be corrupted due to sensor or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Nan Lin , Yanbo Wang , Jacco Heres , Peter Palensky , Pedro P. Vergara

Smart meters provide relevant information for impedance identification, but they lack global phase alignment and internal network nodes are often unobserved. A few methods for this setting were developed, but they have requirements on data…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-25 Federico Rosato , Lorenzo Nespoli , Vasco Medici

The availability of genomic data is essential to progress in biomedical research, personalized medicine, etc. However, its extreme sensitivity makes it problematic, if not outright impossible, to publish or share it. As a result, several…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2022-01-19 Bristena Oprisanu , Georgi Ganev , Emiliano De Cristofaro

In the electricity grid, networked sensors which record and transmit increasingly high-granularity data are being deployed. In such a setting, privacy concerns are a natural consideration. We present an attack model for privacy breaches,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-06-02 Lillian J. Ratliff , Roy Dong , Henrik Ohlsson , Alvaro A. Cardenas , S. Shankar Sastry

In this article we describe our efforts of extending demand-side control concepts to the application in portable electronic devices, such as laptop computers, mobile phones and tablet computers. As these devices feature built-in energy…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-03-26 Stefan Hild , Sean Leavey , Christian Gräf , Borja Sorazu

Outsourcing data storage to the remote cloud can be an economical solution to enhance data management in the smart grid ecosystem. To protect the privacy of data, the utility company may choose to encrypt the data before uploading them to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-11-01 Jiangnan Li , Xiangyu Niu , Jinyuan Stella Sun

This paper presents a hybrid data-driven physics model-based framework for real time monitoring in smart grids. As the power grid transitions to the use of smart grid technology, it's real time monitoring becomes more vulnerable to cyber…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-28 Cody Ruben , Surya Dhulipala , Keerthiraj Nagaraj , Sheng Zou , Allen Starke , Arturo Bretas , Alina Zare , Janise McNair

Due to limited metering infrastructure, distribution grids are currently challenged by observability issues. On the other hand, smart meter data, including local voltage magnitudes and power injections, are communicated to the utility…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-12-21 Siddharth Bhela , Vassilis Kekatos , Sriharsha Veeramachaneni

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 technologies are enablers of new business models for domestic consumers with local flexibility (generation, loads, storage) and where access to data is a key requirement in the value stream. However, legislation on personal data…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-14 Ricardo J. Bessa , David Rua , Cláudia Abreu , Paulo Machado , José R. Andrade , Rui Pinto , Carla Gonçalves , Marisa Reis

The scarcity of Smart Home data is still a pretty big problem, and in a world where the size of a dataset can often make the difference between a poor performance and a good performance for problems related to machine learning projects,…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Marco Piangerelli , Giacomo Rocchetti , Alessandro Liscio , Renato De Leone

Smart grids leverage the data collected from smart meters to make important operational decisions. However, they are vulnerable to False Data Injection (FDI) attacks in which an attacker manipulates meter data to disrupt the grid…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-10 Daniel Reijsbergen , Aung Maw , Tien Tuan Anh Dinh , Wen-Tai Li , Chau Yuen

Strategies that include the generation of synthetic data are beginning to be viable as obtaining real data can be logistically complicated, very expensive or slow. Not only the capture of the data can lead to complications, but also its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-16 Paola Natalia Canas , Juan Diego Ortega , Marcos Nieto , Oihana Otaegui

The real-world data of power networks is often inaccessible due to privacy and security concerns, highlighting the need for tools to generate realistic synthetic network data. Existing methods leverage geographic tools like OpenStreetMap…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-17 Henrique O. Caetano , Rahul K. Gupta , Marco Aiello , Carlos Dias Maciel

Fine-grained energy usage data collected by Smart Meters (SM) is one of the key components of the smart grid (SG). While collection of this data enhances efficiency and flexibility of SG, it also poses a serious threat to the privacy of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-22 Cihan Emre Kement

Power grids and their cyber infrastructure are classified as Critical Energy Infrastructure/Information (CEII) and are not publicly accessible. While realistic synthetic test cases for power systems have been developed in recent years, they…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-10 Samantha Israel , Sanjana Kunkolienkar , Ana Goulart , Kate Davis , Thomas Overbye