PPM: Privacy Policy Manager
for Home Energy Management System

Mohammad Shahriar Rahman^1,+, Anirban Basu², Toru Nakamura³, Haruo Takasaki⁴,

and Shinsaku Kiyomoto⁴

¹University of Liberal Arts, Dhaka, Bangladesh

shahriar.rahman@ulab.edu.bd

²University of Sussex, UK

a.basu@sussex.ac.uk

³ATR, Kyoto, Japan

tr-nakamura@atr.jp

⁴KDDI Research Inc., Saitama, Japan

{ha-takasaki, kiyomoto}@kddi-research.jp

Abstract

The smart grid has been a popular technology for the power grid system. In order to optimize the power supply and distribution, and to provide personalized services by service providers, the consumption data is collected from the smart meters through Home Energy Management Systems (HEMS). However, privacy concern has been a major issue for personal data utilization. This paper introduces a new personalized services architecture for HEMS service providers. Under this architecture access control for private information is separated from data storage by using a user’s customized privacy policy. Also, the architecture supports user-driven privacy policy management. The Privacy Policy Manager (PPM), a major component, has been designed for this purpose. PPM provides the following functionalities: privacy policy management, information flow control, and recording the flows.

Keywords: Home Energy Management Systems, Privacy Policy, Personalized Services, Management

+: Corresponding author: Mohammad Shahriar Rahman
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University Liberal Arts Bangladesh, Dhaka-1209, Bangladesh
Tel: +88-(0)2-9661255

Journal of Wireless Mobile Networks, Ubiquitous Computing, and Dependable Applications (JoWUA)

Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 42-56, June 2018 [pdf]