HEMS solutions for preventing mass blackouts that could be triggered by hacked water heaters

The security loopholes and lapses of the conventional smart grid systems are becoming some form of valid threat to their full adoption and utilization in the years to come. This would only be a different story if of course, there are fail proof structures that would serve as the required amendments; but these structures are not visibly available at this time.

Notably however, Robotina’s overall HEMS system has been carefully built from the scratch, thus making the company’s operation framework to remain at levels that are steps ahead of the game; hence, our service cum products have been designed with all of these elements being put to consideration.

The problem with the everyday smart grid procedures and operations

Although the use of the fundamental smart grids are an enviable achievement for all of the world’s geographical locations, there are questions as to how effective they would be, especially with the structures yet on ground. A possible incident of concern is that which bothers around the use of IoT connected botnets by hackers, in disrupting smart grid energy supply functions. According to a group of security researchers at the Princeton University, all that is needed to cause a mass blackout, was an interference and consequent control of the grid’s overall demand curve- which would imminently lead to a power failure. The valid target route for securing the entrance are energy requiring appliances like the water heater, that takes source from the grid. This means, hackers don’t necessarily need access to the smart grid’s general control stricture before wrecking the havoc, as they can implement it right from the hacked water heaters.

Why the Robotina company’s HEMS framework is considered fail proof

As a proactive solution that forestalls the possibility of this power disruption tendencies, the Robotina HEMS operation framework is that which is aptly secured on all ends. Every appliance- such as the water heaters, air conditioners etcetera, taking power source from the power grid, are connected, monitored, and controlled by our installed IoT implementation units. The implementing IoT things are consequently connected to our overall network where the ultimate control directive are given. By this, an anomaly in power demand and supply curves, are promptly discovered and curtailed before the effects are felt.

This means, there is almost no way we would not detect it, if hacking activities are being subtly effected on the appliances that have active connection to our platform. Asides this, another way by which the Robotina network runs a safeguarded status, is by reconciling energy use history of appliances with the current status at every point in time. The IoT devices sees to it that the energy use of households are constantly following pre-set energy use instructions.

The way forward

Considering the fact that these events are quite easy and very realistic, the way forward for effective smart grid use, is to adopt the models that blocks out the tendencies. Now, this brings the relevance of our company’s product models to bear, and consequently calls for the need to push our products and services to reach more people on the world’s overall power markets.

If our HEMS management and optimization units are able to get to a very substantial ratio of the total energy users, then we would have largely achieved a compositional aspect of company’s objective aimed at providing safe energy solutions for the world populace.