PRoviding Energy Metering Infrastructures with Secure Extended Services (PREMISES) (PREMISES)

Energy metering infrastructures, i.e. smart meters (SMs), are a key component in the transition towards a more sustainable and
intelligent electricity grid. Nevertheless, they have received very little attention as an enabler of user centric energy services (ES) such as
demand response (DR) strategies, a key objective of the Clean Energy for all Europeans package (2019). Achieving this goal, however, is
linked to a series of challenges. First, it involves collecting data from SM systems that are not standardised among the EU Member States.
Subsequently, a large amount of data must be processed to provide useful ES while also allowing for scalability. Furthermore, energy data
comprise sensitive personal information, so privacy must be guaranteed at all stages. This project is built around these elements with the
following objectives: (i) the evaluation and definition of mechanisms to access SMs data; (ii) intelligent analysis of SM data for ES utilising
hierarchically scalable data-driven techniques which combine non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM) for local asset identification and cluster analysis for top-level aggregation;(iii)implementing these algorithms in a privacy-friendly manner, using computation over encrypted data (COED)-techniques. This combination of research domains (ES, data science and privacy) aims to capture the untapped benefits showing the use of SMs to offer data-driven and privacy-friendly ES.