Smart Meters and Advanced Metering Infrastructure

Martins, J. F.; Pronto, Anabela; Delgado-Gomes, Vasco; Sănduleac, Mihai

doi:10.1016/b978-0-08-102592-5.00004-1

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“…For deploying this SCADA architecture in a real scenario, we have acquired inspiration from using smart meters [22] (e.g., traffic light control, water management) over a city/district scenario.…”

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Experimenting With Digital Signatures Over a DNP3 Protocol in a Multitenant Cloud-Based SCADA Architecture

Marian

Cusman²,

Stinga

et al. 2020

IEEE Access

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The ideas presented in this paper are summarized as follows. The first idea entails improving the security of supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) architectures by means of asymmetric cryptography and digital signatures and measuring the performance overhead. This allows achieving some obvious subsequent goals such as data-origin authentication, and the traceability and implicit nonrepudiation of commands given to intelligent field and direct control equipment. The possibility to include digital signatures with a minimum impact on a standard and a reliable data communication protocol, such as Distributed Network Protocol version 3 (DNP3), also known to have a mature, industrially validated, opensource implementation, has been tested and the results are presented. A second idea concerns designing and developing a multitenant cloud-based architecture for a SCADA environment. This hypothesis focuses on certain SCADA operators that manage multiple industrial control systems (ICS) and intend to consolidate process data in a centralized manner. INDEX TERMS digital signatures, cybersecurity, SCADA, industrial control system, cloud-based services.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Experimenting With Digital Signatures Over a DNP3 Protocol in a Multitenant Cloud-Based SCADA Architecture

Marian

Cusman²,

Stinga

et al. 2020

IEEE Access

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“…The AMI is situated between the consumer and utility provider [12]. The AMI routes data of consumers' consumption through a wired or wireless network to the utility provider and gives the consumer billing data.…”

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A Concealed Based Approach for Secure Transmission in Advanced Metering Infrastructure

2022

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The smart grid has an important subsystem known as the Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI), responsible for measuring customer consumption of electricity. The AMI subsystem has smart meters as one of the components and they play a vital role in enabling communication between the utility provider and consumers. Smart meters can report real-time electricity consumption readings of the consumer to the utility. Securing this communication link from attacks remain very important for the secure transmission of readings. Different methods or approaches have been developed in the past and most of the works have high computational overheads. This paper proposes a lightweight Concealed Based Security Scheme (CBSS) for secure transmission within the AMI, providing authentication, reducing the computational overheads and energy consumption during transmission. The CBSS method is compared with the AMI Data Communication Scheme (ADCS) which does not have authentication process. The network is built in the Network Simulator 2 environment, showing the communication between the nodes. Further security is provided using a simple encryption/decryption method of 2 random numbers. The contribution of this paper is the proposed lightweight method for the AMI that authenticates the transfer of data between smart meters and other components of the AMI system. The paper also contains a simulation evaluation for the chosen design parameters of the resemblance of AMI network. The simulations show an improvement of 5% in delivery ratio, 3% throughput and 4% on energy consumed when adding security to the network.

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“…The AMI is a complete energy network that enables automated metering with the help of the communication between a smart meter and utility company. It mainly consists of smart meters (hardware), communication network as well as data management system (software) to measure, collect, record and analyze the load profiles of customers (Alotaibi et al, 2020;Martins et al, 2019).…”

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Hardware Design of Single-Phase Smart Electricity Meter based on Multiple Wireless Connectivity Technologies

AKKAYA¹,

Soy²

2022

European Journal of Science and Technology

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Smart meters are an indispensable element of new generation smart grids. This study presents the hardware design of a novel singlephase smart electricity meter, which can provide energy efficiency, adaptive pricing and automated data collection functions. Besides, an extensive information is given about the Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and NB-IoT technologies that are used to transfer the electrical parameters (current, voltage, active/reactive power, power factor etc.) related with its connected load to the cloud server. Our designed smart meter has been tested by connecting to the LED lighting panel, which is supplied over the electric grid. So, the measurement validity has been verified by using the application program. Also, the smart meter readings have been successfully transferred to the mobile phone application and cloud platform with the help of available wireless connection technologies.

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Smart Meters and Advanced Metering Infrastructure

Cited by 21 publications

References 4 publications

Experimenting With Digital Signatures Over a DNP3 Protocol in a Multitenant Cloud-Based SCADA Architecture

Experimenting With Digital Signatures Over a DNP3 Protocol in a Multitenant Cloud-Based SCADA Architecture

A Concealed Based Approach for Secure Transmission in Advanced Metering Infrastructure

Hardware Design of Single-Phase Smart Electricity Meter based on Multiple Wireless Connectivity Technologies

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