Paper Info
Title
Privacy and customer segmentation in the smart grid
Abstract
In the electricity grid, networked sensors which record and transmit increasingly high-granularity data are being deployed. In such a setting, privacy concerns are a natural consideration. In order to obtain the consumer's valuation of privacy, we design a screening mechanism consisting of a menu of contracts offered to the energy consumer with varying guarantees of privacy. The screening process is a means to segment customers. Finally, we design insurance contracts using the probability of a privacy breach to be offered by third-party insurance companies.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/CDC.2014.7039714
Decision and Control
Keywords
Field
DocType
consumer protection,contracts,data privacy,insurance,smart power grids,customer segmentation,electricity grid,energy consumer,insurance contracts,privacy breach probability,privacy guarantees,screening mechanism,smart grid,third-party insurance companies
Electricity grid,Market segmentation,Insurance policy,Privacy by Design,Smart grid,Computer science,Computer security,Information privacy,Valuation (finance),Privacy software
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0743-1546
1
0.35
References 
Authors
12
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Lillian J. Ratliff18723.32
Roy Dong27912.05
Henrik Ohlsson330525.91
Alvaro A. Cárdenas41390101.51
Shankar Sastry5119771291.58