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Hardware Security Device Facilitated Trusted Energy Services

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We report on our experiences in developing a hardware based security solution for a novel, smart-grid enabled energy services system. In this paper, we first give a background to a new energy services model and then describe how we incorporated a CSIRO developed portable trusted computing platform into a practical, prototype system which assures that all transactions between the energy service company and the consumer are trustworthy, secure and private.

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  1. An economic examination of the use of contracts in smart grid systems is presented in [29].

  2. Companies such as Gemalto and Spyrus already supply smart cards with a variety of interfaces, including card reader, USB and Near-Field Communications (NFC).

  3. The development environment for the device is OpenEmbedded, with the device’s operating system based on Linux.

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    John J. Zic, Martin de Groot, Dongxi Liu, Julian Jang & Chen Wang

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Zic, J.J., de Groot, M., Liu, D. et al. Hardware Security Device Facilitated Trusted Energy Services. Mobile Netw Appl 17, 564–577 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11036-012-0363-5

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