Performance Analysis of Smart Meters for Enabling a New Era for Power and Utilities with Securing Data Transmission and Distribution Using End-to-End Encryption (E2EE) in Smart Grid

The most outstanding engineering achievement of the twenty-first century in power systems is smart grid. The SG is an emerging technology which is revolutionizing the typical electrical grid by incorporating Information Communication Technology (ICT); this can be the main enabler of smart grid. This ICT can bring increased connectivity with increased severe security vulnerabilities and challenges. Cyberterrorism can be a prime target in smart grid because of its complex nature. To eliminate such cybersecurity issues, the most reliable end-to-end security algorithm was proposed. In this paper, information transmitted from customer through smart meter to the distributor and from distributor to the customer via smart meter was secured by End-to-End Encryption (E2EE). Data to and from the user and distributor cannot be modified in between by third parties. Experimental setup has customized design of Smart Meter (SM) for Home Area Network (HAN) and the proposed design will monitor the smart meter data transmission online. Performance analysis will show the reliability, integrity, and availability maintained in the communication network.