TY - GEN
T1 - Data protection in a cloud-enabled smart grid
AU - Fromm, Alexander
AU - Kelbert, Florian
AU - Pretschner, Alexander
N1 - Funding Information:
Work supported by the “Peer Energy Cloud” project funded by the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology as well as by the Google focused research award “Usage control in the cloud.”
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - Today's electricity grid is evolving into the smart grid which ought to be reliable, flexible, efficient, and sustainable. To fulfill these requirements, the smart grid draws on a plenty of core technologies. Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI). These technologies facilitate easy and fast accumulation of different data, e.g. fine-grained meter readings. Various security and privacy concerns w.r.t. the gathered data arise, since research has shown that it is possible to deduce and extract user behaviour from smart meter readings. Hence, these meter readings are very sensitive and require appropriate protection. Unlike other data protection approaches that are primarily based on data obfuscation and data encryption, we introduce a usage control based data protection mechanism for the smart grid. We show how the concept of distributed data usage control can be integrated with smart grid services and concretize this approach for an energy marketplace that runs on a cloud platform for performance, scalability, and economic reasons.
AB - Today's electricity grid is evolving into the smart grid which ought to be reliable, flexible, efficient, and sustainable. To fulfill these requirements, the smart grid draws on a plenty of core technologies. Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI). These technologies facilitate easy and fast accumulation of different data, e.g. fine-grained meter readings. Various security and privacy concerns w.r.t. the gathered data arise, since research has shown that it is possible to deduce and extract user behaviour from smart meter readings. Hence, these meter readings are very sensitive and require appropriate protection. Unlike other data protection approaches that are primarily based on data obfuscation and data encryption, we introduce a usage control based data protection mechanism for the smart grid. We show how the concept of distributed data usage control can be integrated with smart grid services and concretize this approach for an energy marketplace that runs on a cloud platform for performance, scalability, and economic reasons.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84893146315&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-38030-3_7
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-38030-3_7
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84893146315
SN - 9783642380297
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 96
EP - 107
BT - Smart Grid Security - First International Workshop, SmartGridSec 2012, Revised Selected Papers
T2 - 1st International Workshop on Smart Grid Security, SmartGridSec 2012
Y2 - 3 December 2012 through 3 December 2012
ER -
