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The 13th International Conference on Soft Computing Models in Industrial and Environmental Applications

SOCO’18-CISIS’18-ICEUTE’18 2018: International Joint Conference SOCO’18-CISIS’18-ICEUTE’18 pp 67–76Cite as

How Blockchain Could Improve Fraud Detection in Power Distribution Grid

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Power utilities experience large losses of electricity in distribution from power plants to the end consumer. There are two types of losses: technical and non-technical. Among non-technical losses is a very prominent one: electrical fraud. In this paper we propose a new system to detect fraud. A blockchain is used to store the data collected by the WSN that monitors the power distribution grid. Using data stored in the blockchain, it is constructed directed directed acyclic graph (DAG) with non-technical losses and applied the clustering algorithm created to detect fraud. The main advantage of blockchain to our model is that every time the blockchain grows the stored data is more secure. Therefore, power utilities can perform an inspection in blockchain data stored.

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This paper has been funded by the European Regional Development Fund (FEDER) within the framework of the Interreg program V-A Spain-Portugal 2014-2020 (PocTep) grant agreement No 0123_IOTEC_3_E (project IOTEC).

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  1. BISITE Digital Innovation Hub, University of Salamanca. Edificio Multiusos I+D+i, 37007, Salamanca, Spain

    Roberto Casado-Vara, Javier Prieto & Juan M. Corchado

  2. Department of Electronics, Information and Communication, Faculty of Engineering, Osaka Institute of Technology, Osaka, 535-8585, Japan

    Juan M. Corchado

  3. Pusat Komputeran dan Informatik, Universiti Malaysia Kelantan, Karung Berkunci 36, Pengkaan Chepa, 16100, Kota Bharu, Kelantan, Malaysia

    Juan M. Corchado

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Casado-Vara, R., Prieto, J., Corchado, J.M. (2019). How Blockchain Could Improve Fraud Detection in Power Distribution Grid. In: Graña, M., et al. International Joint Conference SOCO’18-CISIS’18-ICEUTE’18. SOCO’18-CISIS’18-ICEUTE’18 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 771. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94120-2_7

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