Preserving scheme for user’s confidential information in smart grid based on digital watermark and asymmetric encryption

Abstract

As an essential part of the industrial Internet of Things (IoT) in power systems, the development of advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) facilitates services such as energy monitoring, load forecasting, and demand response. However, there is a growing risk of privacy disclosure with the wide installation of smart meters, for they transmit readings and sensitive data simultaneously. To guarantee the confidentiality of the sensitive information and authenticity of smart meter readings, we proposed a privacy-preserving scheme based on digital watermarking and elliptic-curve cryptography (ECC) asymmetric encryption. The sensitive data are encrypted using the public key and are hidden in the collected readings using digital watermark. Only the authorized user can extract watermark and can decrypt the confidential data using its private key. The proposed method realizes secure end-to-end confidentiality of the sensitive information. It has faster computing speed and can verify the data source and ensure the authenticity of readings. The example results show that the proposed method has little influence on the original data and unauthorized access cannot be completed within a reasonable time. On embedded hardware, the processing speed of the proposed method is better than the existing methods.

Keywords

sensitive information / smart grid / smart meter / asymmetric encryption

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