Preventing occupancy detection from smart meters

IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 2426-2434

  Chen, Dong ^a   Kalra, Sandeep ^a   Irwin, David ^a   Shenoy, Prashant ^a   Albrecht, Jeannie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b WILLIAMS COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Data privacy; Internet of things; smart grids

Indexed keywords

DATA PRIVACY; DIGITAL STORAGE; ELECTRIC ENERGY STORAGE; ELECTRIC POWER MEASUREMENT; ENERGY UTILIZATION; HEAT STORAGE; INTERNET OF THINGS; SMART METERS; SMART POWER GRIDS; WATER HEATERS;

COMBINED HEAT; ELECTRIC WATER HEATERS; ELECTRICITY USAGE; ENERGY USAGE; OCCUPANCY DETECTIONS; SENSITIVE INFORMATIONS; SMART GRID; STATE OF THE ART;

ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION NETWORKS;

EID: 85027958418     PISSN: 19493053     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSG.2015.2402224     Document Type: Article

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