Anomaly Detection in Smart Grid Data: An Experience Report

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Authors

ROSSI Bruno CHREN Stanislav BÜHNOVÁ Barbora PITNER Tomáš

Year of publication 2016
Type Article in Proceedings
Conference The 2016 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC 2016)
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Faculty of Informatics

Citation
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/SMC.2016.7844583
Field Informatics
Keywords Smart Grids; Smart Meters; Anomaly Detection; Clustering; Frequent Itemset Mining
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Description In recent years, we have been witnessing profound transformation of energy distribution systems fueled by Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), towards the so called Smart Grid. However, while the Smart Grid design strategies have been studied by academia, only anecdotal guidance is provided to the industry with respect to increasing the level of grid intelligence. In this paper, we report on a successful project in assisting the industry in this way, via conducting a large anomaly-detection study on the data of one of the power distribution companies in the Czech Republic. In the study, we move away from the concept of single events identified as anomaly to the concept of collective anomaly, that is itemsets of events that may be anomalous based on their patterns of appearance. This can assist the operators of the distribution system in the transformation of their grid to a smarter grid. By analyzing Smart Meters data streams, we used frequent itemset mining and categorical clustering with clustering silhouette thresholding to detect anomalous behaviour. As the main result, we provided to stakeholders both a visual representation of the candidate anomalies and the identification of the top-10 anomalies for a subset of Smart Meters.
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