Cluster-based Module to Manage Smart Grid Data for an Enhanced Situation Awareness: A Case Study

Aditya Sundararajan, Hugo Riggs, Avinash Jeewani, Arif I. Sarwat

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Abstract

Under an imminent or ongoing cyberattack, utility network and security operation control center (NOC/SOC) analysts lack access to relevant, timely data, thus reducing their speeds of incident response and decision-making. To enhance their situation awareness, this paper proposes a Data Module (DM) that uses computer clusters to ingest, process, and store data from heterogeneous sources of smart grids and utility enterprise, and derive contextual relationships across attributes to infer meaningful trends. The goal of DM is to enhance situation awareness of its users in a time-constrained environment. The paper describes DM's architecture, presents three functions (correlation, classification and regression trees, and K-means clustering), and validates them using weather and smart meter data from a real Florida neighborhood for the years 2013 to 2015. In doing so, this paper demonstrates the use of an independent module that can be readily customized and integrated into utility NOC/SOC for effective data ingestion and contextualization for well-informed decision-making.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2019 Resilience Week, RWS 2019
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages81-87
Number of pages7
ISBN (Electronic)9781728121352
DOIs
StatePublished - Nov 2019
Externally publishedYes
Event2019 Resilience Week, RWS 2019 - San Antonio, United States
Duration: Nov 4 2019Nov 7 2019

Publication series

NameProceedings - 2019 Resilience Week, RWS 2019

Conference

Conference2019 Resilience Week, RWS 2019
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySan Antonio
Period11/4/1911/7/19

Funding

The work published is a product of research jointly supported by the National Science Foundation Grants CMMI-1745829 and CNS-1553494, and the U.S. Department of Energy DE-OE0000779.

FundersFunder number
National Science FoundationCMMI-1745829, CNS-1553494
U.S. Department of EnergyDE-OE0000779

    Keywords

    • Apache Hadoop
    • ELK
    • computer cluster
    • data management
    • regression
    • situation awareness

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