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Implementing and validating security architectures for measurement systems and sensor networks in Smart Grids ensure that standardised security initiatives in Smart Grid monitoring and control systems are fit for purpose. The integration of security measures into measurement architectures of low voltage (LV) grids are challenges for network operators and metrologists and security requirements must be accounted for in the design phase.  

Security objectives such as prevention of eavesdropping, prevention of playback and spoofing or intrusion detection in LV microgrids are a key aim of this research. Missing threat analysis and appropriate security concepts are the reasons for high risks of data losses caused by cyber-attack.  

This work addresses the key challenges to: 

• Develop and validate a secure distributed measurement system in a LV microgrid 
• Define a generic data model suitable for transmission of grid state information 
• Investigate the performance effect of secured transmission 
• Implement and test secured non-electric sensor functions, (i.e. sensor functions such as wind strength, solar output), status sensors or algorithms that process measurement data. 
• Design measurement strategies for secured sensor networks 

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