Data Driven Approach to Security Frameworks for Smart Energy and Transportation Applications in Smart Connected Communities
The novelty of the project lies in its integrated data driven approach to handling security and trustworthiness in SCC applications. Specifically, we develop innovative privacy-preserving and minimally non-intrusive-by-design, algorithms and models for anomaly detection, trust and reputation scoring models for application providers to counter data integrity breaches and provide information assurance. Towards that goal, we study trade-offs between security, privacy, trust levels, resources, and performance using two exemplar applications in smart mobility and smart energy exchange. Finally, design secure decision-making schemes. The project has access to smart meter data from Texas, California, and Ireland and a large volume of automobile data from Japan. The project is supported by National Science Foundation.
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