Detection of compromised smart meters in the Advanced Metering Infrastructure

Authors/Creators

Zubair A. Baig, Edith Cowan University
Abdurraoof Al Amoudy
Khaled Salah

Abstract

Smart meters are key components of the smart grid infrastructure, connecting households to utility providers. With Internet connectivity to such devices, the smart grid Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) is exposed to attacks by the adversary class. Any compromise of a smart meter may jeopardize the security of not just the household in question, but also the entire neighborhood network and possibly the utility provider's core network. One attack category that may pose a serious threat to the AMI is a meter compromise attack, wherein a smart meter is controlled by the adversary, with the intent of committing energy fraud. In this paper, we present a detection model based on a cumulative analysis of smart meter readings of clustered smart meters. The clustering of smart meters is done based on the physical deployment points of individual smart meters within a neighbourhood area network. Results obtained through simulation of the proposed scheme are promising.

RAS ID

18756

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Date of Publication

2015

Faculty

Faculty of Health, Engineering and Science

School

School of Computer and Security Science

Copyright

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Publisher

IEEE

Comments

Baig, Z., Al Amoudy, A., & Salah, K. (2015). Detection of compromised smart meters in the Advanced Metering Infrastructure. In GCC Conference and Exhibition (GCCCE), 2015 IEEE 8th (pp. 1-6). IEEE. Available here

Recommended Citation

Baig, Z. A., Al Amoudy, A., & Salah, K. (2015). Detection of compromised smart meters in the Advanced Metering Infrastructure. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/IEEEGCC.2015.7060073