Privacy-cost trade-offs in smart electricity metering systems
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Author(s)
Giaconi, Giulio
Gunduz, Deniz
Poor, H Vincent
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Trade-offs between privacy and cost are studied for a smart grid consumer, whose electricity consumption is monitoredin almost real time by the utility provider (UP) through smart meter (SM) readings. It is assumed that an electrical battery isavailable to the consumer, which can be utilized both to achieve privacy and to reduce the energy cost by demand shaping.Privacy is measured via the mean squared distance between the SM readings and a target load profile, while time-of-use (ToU)pricing is considered to compute the cost incurred. The consumer can also sell electricity back to the UP to further improve theprivacy-cost trade-off. Two privacy-preserving energy management policies (EMPs) are proposed, which differ in the way the targetload profile is characterized. A more practical EMP, which optimizes the energy management less frequently, is also considered.Numerical results are presented to compare the privacy-cost trade-off of these EMPs, considering various privacy indicators.
Date Issued
2020-11-06
Date Acceptance
2020-08-07
Citation
IET Smart Grid, 2020, 3 (5), pp.596-604
ISSN
2515-2947
Publisher
Institution of Engineering and Technology
Start Page
596
End Page
604
Journal / Book Title
IET Smart Grid
Volume
3
Issue
5
Copyright Statement
© 2020 The Author(s). This is an open access article published by the IET under the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
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Identifier
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9250255
Publication Status
Published
Date Publish Online
2020-11-06