ICT Support for Adaptiveness and (Cyber)security in the Smart Grid DAT285B

Spring semester, study period 4, 2013

(DAT285 -- Masterclass in Areas of advance)

News:

[2013-04-26] We will do an excursion in the course to show one environment where they have advanced smart grid capabilities. Information was sent out over the class email list, remember to sign up before Monday 2013-04-29.
[2013-04-17] Interesting magazine article regarding balancing demand and supply in Scandinavia and the Baltic area: Denmark: 1,000 Megawatts Of Offshore Wind, And No Signs of Slowing Down
[2013-04-17] The schedule is being updated frequently; please check regularly.
[2013-04-11] In his talk, Göran Ericsson mentioned one of the most successful attacks against scada systems. The case is very interesting and you can find the analysis here in how the attacker connected to the system at least 46 times before he was discovered (by chance).
[2013-04-10] New Google-Group to share / discuss course related topics: dat285-2013-open@googlegroups.com!.
[2013-03-22] More bibliography regarding adaptiveness has been added in the list of papers (here).
[2013-03-19] Link to express interest in projects (choose at least 2): http://www.doodle.com/siyha3fgcmz4bwcf
[2013-03-19] Wednesday 10-11.30 approx. is the second meeting of the course. It will be in EDIT 8103. To reach it you need to climb to the 6th floor of the west wing n EDIT building and follow the staircase in the middle of corridor that leads to the meeting room through a larger, open meeting space (cf map here). (There are signs from the west wing of the 6th floor to reach the room).
[2013-03-18] Tuesday 10--12 is the first meeting of the course. It will be held in EDIT 3364. If you do not know how to find this room, look at the description here.
[2013-03-18] We will try to mix lectures from academia with people coming from industry. Stefan Lundberg from the Electric Power Eng. Division, Chalmers, will give an introductory lecture to Power Systems (16/4). Currently, we have the following industrial companies confirmed for a lecture: ABB, OmegaPoint, and Cactus UniView. They will discuss AMI, SCADA systems, and the importance of security in these systems.
[2013-03-14] Please look at the draft course memo for course administration and organisation.
[2013-03-13] One of our research projects (CRISALIS) that we will talk about in the course is mentioned in a report from Symantec (page 5) to highlight the need for security for the smart grid. We look forward to meeting you next week.
[2013-02-14] Created a group to communicate with us -- if you are interested in the course, have questions not answered here -- just email us and we will get back to you / update the home page: ict-smart-grids-2013@googlegroups.com.
[2013-02-12] Please send us an email if you are thinking about participating next study period -- we have heard that some students do not find the course in the student portal.
[2013-02-12] New draft home page created. Content will be added during February.

Course Description

Examiner:

Associate Proefssor Marina Papatriantafilou, phone: 031-772 5413, email: ptrianta
Assistant Professor Magnus Almgren, phone: 031-772 1702, email: magnus.almgren

This is a so-called masterclass in the area of advance, giving an overview of the smart grid and important technologies from the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) area that is being used. The focus is on algorithms, distributed computing, communication and security.

In Europe and elsewhere, the electrical grid is being transitioned into the "smart grid" in order to increase flexibility and accommodate large scale energy production from renewable sources. This transition involves, among other steps, the installation of new, advanced equipment - for example, the replacement of traditional domestic electrical meters with smart meters - and remote communication with devices - for example, allowing remote access to an unsupervised energy production site.

The course is built around (i) seminars and (ii) project work. Through the seminars you learn about the design or development of systems, infrastructure, and applications that are related to the electric power smart grid, with a focus on distributed algorithms and security. You are expected to give some presentations, as well as to participate actively in discussions. Through the second part of the course, you are also expected to complete lab work, i.e. a significant project with relevance to the smart grid. In this way you will also gain experience at the front connecting research and education in the main domain overlapping two of the Areas of Advance, namely ICT and Energy.

Recommended text book
The course is built around seminars, lecture notes and research papers.

Course Memo

The Course memo summarizes relevant information of the course.

Study Material - List of Papers

The course will be based on a series of scientific articles, both to give an introduction to our work and then support you in your respective projects. We have started to assimilate a list of papers from which you can choose. The list of papers are found here.

Project Information

A major part of the course will evolve around the projects. Our idea is that this should be a hands-on approach, but for each project we also expect you to read scientific papers. These will help you for the implementation but also show research problems.

The list of projects is a suggestion. If you have your own idea, please come and talk to us.

Online monitoring of energy consumption
The project targets the setup of a small ZigBee network with source sensor and a server sensor. The source sensor will forward information about energy consumption while the server will run a lightweight Stream Processing Engine prototype processing such information and generating user-defined alarms. For instance, an "alarm" mail could be sent to a given address each time the energy consumed over the last hour exceeds a given threshold.
Simulation and in-network aggregation of smart meters data
The project targets the setup of a ZigBee sensor network. Source sensors will simulate energy consumption and forward it to Aggregator sensors. Different simulation models might be defined for different sensors. Aggregator sensors will connect in an hierarchical topology and aggregate such data in order to compute the overall consumption.
Building a testbed for AMI
This project is about building a testbed for advanced metering infrastructure. It consists of different parts, for example simulating a smart meter with protocols and functionality and how this smart meter would speak to a concentrator in the test bed.
Security testing for AMI
Given the prolific spread of AMI devices, we are going to look at a number of issues facing these systems and especially see how the technique called fuzzying can be applied to find out if a system contain vulnerabilities and how to build better systems.
A simple demand response service
This project will develop the communications node of a basic demand
response service, building on an ARM-based embedded platform. The goal
is to reduce energy consumption peaks by dynamically adjusting the
load of the system. The node will interface with off-the-shelf
equipment that monitors the energy consumption of electrical
appliances, and schedule them to operate according to an intelligent
scheduling algorithm.
... (to be continued)

Notes, slides and other course material

The following course material is electronically available. Please note that the slides alone do not give a full coverage of the course contents.

The course meetings are mainly in room 3364 (the EDIT room), next to Linsen. A few instances will take place in another location, which will be highlighted on the meeting list below. As per the course memo, we will not use all slots marked in time edit as the second part of the course will be focused on your project.

Most Tuesdays will focus on presentations and most Wednesdays will focus on project progress. See also "Extra reading" = ER1 below.

Seminar Meetings and slides

Study Week 1:
Tuesday 130319: Introduction to the course [slides 1] [slides 2]
(Tue 2013-03-19, 10-13 in room 3364)

Wed 2013-03-20, 10-12 in room 8103: An Information-centric Energy Infrastructure: The Berkeley View [slides1], Projects framework [slides 2] (see the news in this page for how to get there)
Study Week 2:
Tue 9/2: Joris van Rooij, Gothenburg Energy; "Advanced Metering Infrastructure" . Vincenzo Gulisano, "Introduction to Data Streaming"
Wed 10/4: Göran Ericsson, Swedish National Grid, "Information Security for the future smart grid"

Study Week 3:
Tue 16/4: Olaf Landsiedel: Wireless communication " Wireless communication" , Georgios Georgiadis: adaptiveness / scheduling
Wed 17/4: student presentation: Sathya Prakash " AMI security" + project review

Study Week 4:
Tue 23/4: Stefan Lundberg (Chalmers): Power Systems, + Anders Kjellstrom (electrotest.se) , Smart homes
Wed 24/4: student presentations / project review

Study Week 5:
Tue 30/4: Thomas Andreasson: Cactus UniView - Slides, + Stefan Lundberg (Chalmers): Power Systems
Thursday 05-02, 8-10, in room 3364: student presentation: Gongpei Cui + project reviews

Study Week 6:
Tue 7/5, 10-12, in room 8103: Rikard Bodforss: OmegaPoint - AMI security + Project reviews
Wed 8/5: student presentations: Mikael Weckstén (ppt) + Sanjana Hangal (ppt)

Study Week 7:
Tue 14/5: Gunnar Björkman: ABB and EU Coordinator VIKING (presentation)
Wed 15/5: student presentations: Viktor Botev (ppt) + Andrew Soderberg-Rivkin (ppt)

Study Week 8:
Tue 21/5, in room 8103, student presentations / project review
Wed 22/5: student presentation / project review

Extra Reading

Lecture 1:

Course Evaluation

Information on the process of course evaluation is found on the Course Evaluation page.

The course representatives for the course 2012/2013 are the following (all emails in chalmers domain). Please contact them with any praise / concern that you may have.

The introductory meeting is going to be held in study week (sw) 2.

URL for this page: http://www.cse.chalmers.se/edu/course/EDA263/index.html
Latest change 2013-04-08 by Magnus Almgren