Industry 4.0 Interoperability, Analytics, Security, and Case Studies

6 An Intelligent Blockchain-Based Framework for Securing Smart Grid

G. Jaspher W. Kathrine, Bahman Javadi, J. Dinesh Peter, and G. Matthew Palmer

CONTENTS

6.1 Introduction

6.2 Traditional Electric Grid

6.2.1 The Drawbacks in Traditional Grid

6.3 Moving towards Smart Grid

6.3.1 Industry 4.0

6.3.2 Cyber-Physical System

6.3.3 Smart Grid

6.3.4 Advantages of Smart Grid

6.4 Security Concerns in Smart Grid

6.5 Countermeasures

6.6 Proposed Secure Smart Grid Framework

6.7 Conclusion

References

6.1 Introduction

Electricity is one of the major break-through discoveries of the 19th century. Since then electricity has become an essential form of energy and has aided in Industrialization. Electricity was initially transmitted using a grid circuit connecting ...