DETECTION OF ELECTRICITY THEFT CYBER-ATTACKS IN RENEWABLE DISTRIBUTED GENERATION FOR FUTURE IOT-BASED SMART ELECTRIC METERS

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R. Ashok Kumar
K. Divija
M. Siddhu
G. Vamshi

Abstract

Electricity theft represents a pressing problem that has brought enormous financial losses to electric utility companies worldwide. In the United States alone, $6 billion worth of electricity is stolen annually. Traditionally, electricity theft is committed in the consumption domain via physical attacks that includes line tapping or meter tampering. The smart grid paradigm opens the door to new forms of electricity theft attacks. First, electricity theft can be committed in a cyber manner. With the advanced metering infrastructure (AMI), smart meters are installed at the customers’ premises and regularly report the customers’ consumption for monitoring and billing purposes. In this context, malicious customers can launch cyber-attacks on the smart meters to manipulate the readings in a way that reduces their electricity bill. Second, the smart grid paradigm enables customers to install renewable-based distributed generation (DG) units at their premises to generate energy and sell it back to the grid operator and hence make a profit.


Therefore, this project evaluating performance of various deep learning algorithms such as deep feed forward neural network (DNN), recurrent neural network with gated recurrent unit (RNN-GRU) and convolutional neural network (CNN) for electricity cyber-attack detection. Now-a-days in advance countries solar plates are used to generate electricity and these users can sale excess energy to other needy users and they will be maintained two different meters which will record consumption and production details. While producing some malicious users may tamper smart meter to get more bill which can be collected from electricity renewable distributed energy. This attack may cause huge losses to agencies. To detect such attack, this project is employing deep learning models which can detect all possible alterations to predict theft.

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Kumar, R. A. ., Divija, K. ., Siddhu, M. ., & Vamshi, G. . (2023). DETECTION OF ELECTRICITY THEFT CYBER-ATTACKS IN RENEWABLE DISTRIBUTED GENERATION FOR FUTURE IOT-BASED SMART ELECTRIC METERS. Turkish Journal of Computer and Mathematics Education (TURCOMAT), 14(03), 1315–1328. https://doi.org/10.61841/turcomat.v14i03.14521
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