The next-generation energy network, the so-called smart grid (SG), promises tremendous
increases in efficiency, safety, and flexibility in managing the electricity grid as compared to …

Smart meters have been widely installed to monitor residential electricity usage worldwide.
This brings a serious privacy challenge for the customers, because the meter readings can …

Smart meters, designed for information collection and system monitoring in smart grid, report
fine-grained power consumption to utility providers. With these highly accurate profiles of …

Smart monitoring work as a backbone of a smart grid distribution network. To support the
existing grid toward a smart grid scenario, smart metering plays a vital role at the customer …

Demand-side energy management (EM) is studied from a privacy-cost trade-off perspective,
considering time-of-use pricing and the presence of an energy storage unit. Privacy is …

This paper investigates smart home energy management in consideration of tradeoffs
between residential privacy and energy costs. A multiobjective approach that minimizes …

Blockchain is a new class of technology in computer science that combines cryptography
and distributed computing. It provides a digitally timestamped database where the network …

Smart meters, designed for information collection and system monitoring in smart grid, report
fine-grained power consumption to utility providers. With these highly accurate profiles of …

Smart water meters at household connections are being installed in large numbers
throughout the world due to the benefits they are expected to bring to the water utilities and …

Millions of the smart meters, as essential components, are being deployed ubiquitously in
the next generation power system. However, the public privacy concerns over the users' …