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European Initiatives
Collaborations in European Programs, Except FP7 & H2020
COPES
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Smart meters have the capability to measure and record consumption data at a high time resolution and communicate such data to the energy provider. This provides the opportunity to better monitor and control the power grid and to enable demand response at the residential level. This not only improves the reliability of grid operations but also constitutes a key enabler to integrate variable renewable generation, such as wind or solar. However, the communication of high resolution consumption data also poses privacy risks as such data allows the utility, or a third party, to derive detailed information about consumer behavior. Hence, the main research objective of COPES is to develop new technologies to protect consumer privacy, while not sacrificing the ”smartness”, i.e., advanced control and monitoring functionalities. The core idea is to overlay the original consumption pattern with additional physical consumption or generation, thereby hiding the consumer privacy sensitive consumption. The means to achieve this include the usage of storage, small scale distributed generation and/or elastic energy consumptions. Hence, COPES proposes and develops a radically new approach to alter the physical energy flow, instead of purely relying on encryption of meter readings, which provides protection against third party intruders but does not prevent the use of this data by the energy provider.
UPRISE-IoT
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The call states that “Traditional protection techniques are insufficient to guarantee users’ security and privacy within the future unlimited interconnection”: UPRISE-IoT will firstly identify the threats and model the behaviours in IoT world, and further will build new privacy mechanisms centred around the user. Further, as identified by the call “all aspects of security and privacy of the user data must be under the control of their original owner by means of as simple and efficient technical solutions as possible”, UPRISE-IoT will rise the awareness of data privacy to the users. Finally, it will deeply develop transparency mechanisms to “guarantee both technically and regulatory the neutrality of the future internet.” as requested by the call. The U-HIDE solution developed inn UPRISE-IoT will “empower them to understand and make their own decisions regarding their data, which is essential in gaining informed consent and in ensuring the take-up of IoT technologies”, using a methodology that includes “co-design with users to address the key, fundamental, but inter-related and interdisciplinary aspects of privacy, security and trust.”