Abstract
The introduction of the Smart Grid brings with it several benefits to society, because its bi-directional communication allows both users and utilities to have better control over energy usage. However, it also has some privacy issues with respect to the privacy of the customers when analysing their consumption data. In this paper we review the main privacy-preserving techniques that have been proposed and compare their efficiency, to accurately select the most appropriate ones for undertaking control operations. Both privacy and performance are essential for the rapid adoption of Smart Grid technologies.
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The second author receives funding from the Ramón y Cajal research programme financed by the Ministerio de EconomÃa y Competitividad. In addition, this work also has been partially supported by the same ministry through the research project PERSIST (TIN2013-41739-R), by the Andalusian government through the project FISSICO (P11-TIC-07223) and by the European Commission through the H2020 project NECS (H2020-MSCA-ITN-2015- 675320).
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Rubio, J.E., Alcaraz, C., Lopez, J. (2017). Selecting Privacy Solutions to Prioritise Control in Smart Metering Systems. In: Havarneanu, G., Setola, R., Nassopoulos, H., Wolthusen, S. (eds) Critical Information Infrastructures Security. CRITIS 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10242. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71368-7_15
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