Secure energy management in Smart Energy Networks

Worldwide deployed power grids have provided seamless unidirectional power supply of electricity for decades. Recently, diverse environmental factors (e.g., depletion of primary energy resources, climate change) and the heterogeneous nature of energy production are calling for new solutions. Accordingly, the Smart-NRG project proposes a modular and flexible system architecture, new technologies, and simulation tools to meet the specifications of smart grid applications. In this paper, we give an overview of the system-level simulator proposed in previous work and we present new secure communication and energy management solutions for smart grids. Experimental and simulation results show the gains of a threshold-based energy management algorithm and the end-to-end delays required to secure the information flows in the network.