Abstract
In modern energy grids, also termed smart grids, energy and information from different stakeholders are exchanged, processed and analyzed. An increasing number of data from customers is collected and transmitted for billing, scheduling and monitoring. In order to protect customer privacy, (i) the privacy gap of existing and proposed use cases needs to be assessed; and (ii) new methods and protocols need to be developed that allow a privacy-preserving and provably secure processing of data and information. This paper evaluates existing solutions and proposes novel approaches to privacy enhancing technologies in the smart grid user domain.
About the author
Fabian Knirsch is a PhD student at the Computer Sciences Department at University of Salzburg since 2015 and a researcher at the Josef Ressel Center for User-Centric Smart Grid Privacy, Security and Control at Salzburg University of Applied Sciences since 2014. He was a visiting scholar at the University of Southern California and received the Master's degree Dipl.-Ing. in 2014 from Salzburg University of Applied Sciences. His current research interest is on privacy enhancing technologies in the smart grid user domain.
Josef Ressel Center for User-Centric Smart Grid Privacy, Security and Control, Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, Urstein Sued 1, 5412 Puch/Salzburg, Austria
Acknowledgement
The support by the superviser Andreas Uhl from University of Salzburg and the co-superviser Dominik Engel from Salzburg University of Applied Sciences as well as the valuable comments from Hartmut Schmeck are gratefully acknowledged. The financial support by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Science, Research and Economy and the Austrian National Foundation for Research, Technology and Development is gratefully acknowledged. Funding by the Federal State of Salzburg is gratefully acknowledged.
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