Cyber Security on Transactions in

Smart Metering Systems using

Blockchain

Student: M.C. Juan Carlos Olivares Rojas

Advisors: Dr. Enrique Reyes Archundia,
Dr. José Antonio Gutiérrez Gnecchi

October 2019
Motivation

The Data Revolution

Source: IEEE
Smart City / Smart Grid

Source: WebNMS
 Smart Metering System

Source: PGE
 AMI Architecture

Source: ELP (Electric Light Power)

 Non-Technical Losses

PSG 2017-2031

Reduce loss level to 13.38%

 Tampering SMI

Source: Maxim
Cyber Security Issues in SMS

Source: self-made
Related works
 Blockchain

Source:Tien Tuan Anh Dinh, et al. (2017). “DOI 10.1109/TKDE.2017.2781227

 Literature Review
Work Features BC Type Algoritmo Processing Smart Chain Type Others
Consenso Contr
act
Priwatt Comercialization Private Proof-of- Cloud S Simple Multi-Signatures
permisioned concept*
Helios Comercialization Private PoS Cloud S Simple  
permisioned
BC IoT Security Smart Private/Public PoW Cloud N Double External Storage
Home Server

Grid Security SG Private PoW* Cloud N Simple Different data

Monitoring permisioned structures on BC

Phantom Criptocurrencies Public/Privated Double: Proof-of- Cloud N Multi-tier BlockDAG

BC General reputation and
Proof-of-
computingWork
Fluree Databases BC Public* PoW* Cloud N Simple Databases on BC

Blok4Forensi Forensic Audit Private PoS Cloud N Simple Data

c permisioned Fragmentation on
and BC
permisionless
Arq. Dist. BC Distributed Public PoW* Cloud/Fog N Double SDN
Cloud Computing permisioned
Architecture and
permisionless
Consortium Malware Private/Public Hybrid: Cloud Partial Double Legal Prose
Detection PoW/PoS
Proposal: Security on SMS Private Hybrid per each Cloud/Fog/ IoT Partia Multi-tier External BC
AMI-BC Transactions permisioned tier (medidores y l Interconection
and Proof-of- dispositivos) (Pros Data Frag. on
permisionless Efficiency a) BC
 Cloud-Fog-Edge

Source: self-made
 Arquitecture Proposed
Source: self-made

PoEf:
Proof-of-
Efficiency
 PoEf: Consumption Prediction
Predicting Intermediate weight
and Time-Series Algorithm
adjusting

readings
SM Feeding DC
A, the model
Forecast Trained
SAs,
model Forecast
DER* model

Data for
other SMs:
Lightweight Day, week,
Time-Series Algorithm Month, year

Source: self-made
PoEf: Power Quality Estimation
Predicting and
Checking power quality events K-means Algorithm variation
In real-time

measurements
SM Events occured DC
of
A, Power quality Trained
SAs, Classification
Forecast
and
DER model
Prediction
Model
Data for
other SMs

K-means and decision tree

Source: self-made
 PoEf: Energy Fraud Detection
Predicting annomaly events
in real-time Bayessian classificator
Behavior
A, Rules
SAs,
DER DC Alarms to the
SM Annomaly Utility and SM
Events
measurements Consumption/ Trained
Production model
Patterns
Data for
other SMs
Rules validator

Source: self-made
PoEf: Energy Fraud Detection

1
2

Agent Agent
Lower level Upper level

4 3

Reinforcement Learnig Approach

Source: self-made
Smart Pi
State of the Research
 Questions?
• Thank you!

• jcolivares@itmorelia.edu.mx

• http://dsc.itmorelia.edu.mx/msc
• http://sagitario.itmorelia.edu.mx/pelectron
• http://sagitario.itmorelia.edu.mx/dci