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PRIVATUS: Wallet-Friendly Privacy Protection for Smart Meters

PRIVATUS: Wallet-Friendly Privacy Protection for Smart Meters

  • Jinkyu Koo19,
  • Xiaojun Lin19 &
  • Saurabh Bagchi19 
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Abstract

In smart power grids, a smart meter placed at a consumerend point reports fine-grained usage information to utility providers. Based on this information, the providers can perform demand prediction and set on-demand pricing. However, this also threatens user privacy, since users’ specific activity or behavior patterns can be deduced from the finely granular meter readings. To resolve this issue, we design Privatus, a privacy-protection mechanism that uses a rechargeable battery. In Privatus, the meter reading reported to the utility is probabilistically independent of the actual usage at any given time instant. Privatus also considerably reduces the correlation between the meter readings and the actual usage pattern over time windows. Further, using stochastic dynamic programming, Privatus charges/discharges the battery in the optimal way to maximize savings in the energy cost, given prior knowledge of time periods for the various price zones.

Keywords

  • smart grid
  • smart meter
  • privacy
  • cost saving
  • dynamic programming
  • battery

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  1. Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 47907, USA

    Jinkyu Koo, Xiaojun Lin & Saurabh Bagchi

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  1. Dipartimento di Informatica, Università degli Studi di Milano, Via Bramante 65, 26013, Crema, Italy

    Sara Foresti

  2. Computer Science Department, Columbia University, 1214 Amsterdam Avenue, 10025, New York, NY, US

    Moti Yung

  3. Institute of Informatics and Telematics, Information Security Group, National Research Council, Pisa Research Area, Via G. Moruzzi 1, 56125, Pisa, Italy

    Fabio Martinelli

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Koo, J., Lin, X., Bagchi, S. (2012). PRIVATUS: Wallet-Friendly Privacy Protection for Smart Meters. In: Foresti, S., Yung, M., Martinelli, F. (eds) Computer Security – ESORICS 2012. ESORICS 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7459. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33167-1_20

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