Natural timestamping using electrical power grid: demo abstract

Abstract

The continuous fluctuation of electric network frequency (ENF) presents a fingerprint indicative of time, which we call natural timestamp. This live demo demonstrates the accuracy of the natural timestamps obtained by four wired voltage sensors and four wireless electromagnetic radiation (EMR) sensors that are geographically distributed in Singapore. The voltage sensors and the EMR sensors capture the minute fluctuations of the length of each voltage cycle and the average ENF over every 50 voltage cycles, respectively. The evaluation in our prior studies [1, 3] has shown that the natural timestamps recorded by the voltage sensors and the EMR sensors give sub-millisecond and sub-second average time errors, respectively. This demo will also show their time errors.