PHYSICAL- CYBER SECURITY RISKS ON FUTURE POWER GRID SYSTEMS IN THE PERSPECTIVE OF INDUSTRY 4
Erkan Dursun Ahmet Hacinecipoglu
AbstractThe fourth industrial revolution, known as Industry 4.0, has opened the doors to sustainable energy by modernizing traditional network structure with information and communication technologies and integrating renewable energy sources. In the context of Industry 4.0, modern network structures using advanced Information and Communication Technologies enable us to use energy production, transmission, distribution and consumption processes more efficiently and reliably. The future power grid, which is called “Smart Grid”, provides bidirectional data communication by using information and communication technologies from electricity generation to energy consumption. The Smart Grid include infrastructure that will increase the effective use of available energy with dynamic pricing, control, and protection. The use of wired and wireless communication technologies in Smart Grids causes to physical and cyber security risks. The physical and cyber-attacks that take place in Smart Grids can cause enormous damage. In this study, we have investigated the possible physical and cyber risks that may take place in future power grid. In addition, the features of different wired and wireless communication technologies used in the smart grid are presented in this study.