PCA based electricity theft detection in advanced metering infrastructure

Sandeep Kumar Singh, Ranjan Bose, Anupam Joshi

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Abstract

Advanced metering infrastructure is one of the important components of smart grid and offers an essential link between consumers and their loads, grid, and generation and storage resources. Electricity theft, one of the key concern in AMI, causes million dollar revenue loss every year in developing and developed countries. In this paper, Principal Component Analysis (PCA) based electricity theft detection scheme is proposed. PCA is used to transform a high dimensional dataset into a low dimensional dataset. Using principal components, anomaly score is calculated and compared with a predefined threshold value. The proposed scheme is tested under different attack scenario using real dataset. The results show that the proposed scheme detects electricity theft attacks with high detection rate.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2017 7th International Conference on Power Systems, ICPS 2017
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages441-445
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9781538617892
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 15 2018
Externally publishedYes
Event7th International Conference on Power Systems, ICPS 2017 - Pune, India
Duration: Dec 21 2017Dec 23 2017

Publication series

Name2017 7th International Conference on Power Systems, ICPS 2017

Conference

Conference7th International Conference on Power Systems, ICPS 2017
Country/TerritoryIndia
CityPune
Period12/21/1712/23/17

Keywords

  • Advanced metering infrastructure
  • cyber security
  • electricity theft
  • principal component analysis

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