Towards a Secure Smart Grid Storage Communications Gateway
This work addresses cybersecurity for smart grid storage integration, but it is incremental as it builds on existing measures without introducing major new paradigms.
The paper tackles the problem of securing communications for integrating electric storage into the smart grid by defining security requirements and providing configuration advice for a gateway device, with implementation demonstrated in the HORIZON 2020 project STORY across six sites.
This research in progress paper describes the role of cyber security measures undertaken in an ICT system for integrating electric storage technologies into the grid. To do so, it defines security requirements for a communications gateway and gives detailed information and hands-on configuration advice on node and communication line security, data storage, coping with backend M2M communications protocols and examines privacy issues. The presented research paves the road for developing secure smart energy communications devices that allow enhancing energy efficiency. The described measures are implemented in an actual gateway device within the HORIZON 2020 project STORY, which aims at developing new ways to use storage and demonstrating these on six different demonstration sites.