Intelligent Buildings in Smart Grids: A Survey on Security and Privacy Issues Related to Energy Management

Alvaro Llaria, Jessye Dos Santos, Guillaume Terrasson, Zina Boussaada, Christophe Merlo and Octavian Curea
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Alvaro Llaria: ESTIA Institute of Technology, University Bordeaux, F-64210 Bidart, France
Jessye Dos Santos: ESTIA Institute of Technology, University Bordeaux, F-64210 Bidart, France
Guillaume Terrasson: ESTIA Institute of Technology, University Bordeaux, F-64210 Bidart, France
Zina Boussaada: ESTIA Institute of Technology, University Bordeaux, F-64210 Bidart, France
Christophe Merlo: ESTIA Institute of Technology, University Bordeaux, F-64210 Bidart, France
Octavian Curea: ESTIA Institute of Technology, University Bordeaux, F-64210 Bidart, France

Energies, 2021, vol. 14, issue 9, 1-37

Abstract: During the last decade, the smart grid (SG) concept has started to become a reality, mainly thanks to the technical progress achieved in telecommunications, informatics and power electronics, among other domains, leading to an evolution of the traditional electrical grid into an intelligent one. Nowadays, the SG can be seen as a system of smart systems that include cyber and physical parts from different technologies that interact with each other. In this context, intelligent buildings (IBs) constitute a paradigm in which such smart systems are able to guarantee the comfort of residents while ensuring an appropriate tradeoff of energy production and consumption by means of an energy management system (EMS). These interconnected EMSs remain the objective of potential cyber-attacks, which is a major concern. Therefore, this paper conducts a survey, from a multidisciplinary point of view, of some of the main security and privacy issues related to IBs as part of the SG, including an overview of EMS, smart meters, and the main communication networks employed to connect IBs to the overall SG. Future research directions towards a security enhancement from both technical and human perspectives are also provided.

Keywords: intelligent building; cyber-security; smart grid; system of systems; cyber-physical system; energy management; communication technologies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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