Utilities need much better functional safeguards - In a digital intelligence smart grid

Abstract

A smart grid project necessitates consumer's affirmation to function, which indirectly requires their trust. This study takes account on consumer's consensus via questionnaire survey. First, importance of information security systems in the smart grid is abstracted. Then characters of functional requirements are identified, analyzed and discussed. Based on the proposed model, the identified information security requirements of smart grid are studied and summarized. From the descriptive ranking, consumer is longing of feeling secure while adopting the comprehensive and multilayered of the great smart grid. From the simple lattice ordering result, rule base social system category has the most powerful impact on consumer trust and satisfaction. But in the interlinking, there lays philosophy. This study advanced smart grid information security functionality by developing an innovative set of functional requirements target to enhance next-generation technologies and tools in the areas of transmission, distribution, energy storage, power electronics and cyber security. The smart grid that consumer perceived is user friendly, sense of security and; easy to understand and operate.