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The potential privacy implications of the Smart Grid are one of the key challenges to its introduction. Frequent Smart Meter readings can, e.g., reveal sensitive details about a customer’s behaviour and preferences. The Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) concept explores using electric vehicles as a centrally coordinated grid resource in a Smart Grid. It can similarly lead to privacy issues by revealing a customer’s whereabouts. Though these two privacy issues are closely related, until now, there exists no common architectural approach to protect privacy. In this work, we critically analyse the Smart Grid infrastructure mandated by German law and its shortcomings regarding V2G privacy. Based on this, we propose V2GPriv an architecture that demonstrates how the V2G concept can be integrated with a Smart Grid infrastructure to offer both privacy benefits and avoid costs of a separate V2G infrastructure.
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Stegelmann, M., Kesdogan, D. (2012). V2GPriv: Vehicle-to-Grid Privacy in the Smart Grid. In: Xiang, Y., Lopez, J., Kuo, CC.J., Zhou, W. (eds) Cyberspace Safety and Security. CSS 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7672. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35362-8_9
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