Protecting autonomous grids from potentially crippling GPS spoofing attacks

Science Daily  July 19, 2018 Knowing the speed at which electricity moves, the distance between sensors, and the time it takes an oscillation to move between sensors, one can determine whether the oscillation is real. Phasor measurement units (PMUs) allow synchronous real-time measurements of voltage, phase angle, and frequency from multiple remote locations in the grid, enabled by their ability to align to (GPS) clocks. A team of researchers in the US (Clemson University, UC Santa Clara) proposes a distributed real-time wide-area oscillation estimation approach that is robust to GPS spoofing on PMUs and their associated phasor data concentrators. The […]