Intelligent and Soft Computing Systems for Green Energy

2Security Issues and Challenges for the IoT-Based Smart Grid

Prathiga*, Kavya K., Nanthitha N., Nithishkumar K., Ritika T. and Vishal T.

Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering, Bannari Amman Institute of Technology, Sathyamangalam, India

Abstract

Power demands of the twenty-first century are growing rapidly because of population increase, and efforts are being made to make the energy grid smarter, with greater attention to the power needs of the purchasers, and to offer stepped-up performance and reliability of energy systems. The Internet of Things (IoT) has emerged as one of the allowing technologies for a smart grid network. As IoT-related gadgets keep growing at a fast pace, one of the most important needs is safety, since having gadgets online puts the smart grid at risk of full-scale assaults. Since a primarily IoT-based smart grid might include tens of thousands of nodes, it represents the most important assault floor for an IoT-centered cyberattack. A cyberattack on a smart grid might have devastating results on the reliability of considerable infrastructure given the likely capability cascade effects of shutting down the energy grid, given that most of the gadgets in our homes, offices, hospitals and trains require energy to run. Once a single element tool is compromised, the entire grid becomes at risk of cyberattacks. Such assaults on energy delivery can result in entire towns grinding to a halt, thereby inflicting large economic and monetary losses. This makes ...