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Residential energy monitoring and computerized surveillance via utility power flows
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In this article, the authors consider a nonintrusive appliance load monitoring technique that can provide vital information to help avoid future energy crises, but can also be used for surveillance purposes.Abstract:
The author notes that all novel technologies have the potential to affect society in a complex manner, with both beneficial and detrimental consequences. He considers an illustrative case study: a nonintrusive appliance load monitoring technique that can provide vital information to help avoid future energy crises, but can also be used for surveillance purposes. He notes that there appears to be a significant potential for the technology to be abused. The danger that the technology might eventually lead to an erosion of civil liberties and privacy rights leaves its developers in an ethical quandary. The author examines how this technology should be controlled. >read more
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Nonintrusive appliance load monitoring
TL;DR: In this paper, a nonintrusive appliance load monitor that determines the energy consumption of individual appliances turning on and off in an electric load, based on detailed analysis of the current and voltage of the total load, as measured at the interface to the power source is described.
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Privacy-friendly energy-metering via homomorphic encryption
Flavio D. Garcia,Bart Jacobs +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a combination of Paillier's additive homomorphic encryption and additive secret sharing is used to compute the aggregated energy consumption of a given set of users, which is then used for fraud detection in a privacy-preserving manner.
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Protecting consumer privacy from electric load monitoring
TL;DR: This paper introduces a new class of algorithms and systems, called Non Intrusive Load Leveling (NILL), which uses an in-residence battery to mask variance in load on the grid, thus eliminating exposure of the appliance-driven information used to compromise consumer privacy.
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Eco-visualization: combining art and technology to reduce energy consumption
TL;DR: In this paper, a public art project was created for the National Center for Supercomputing Applications that measures electricity usage in real time for the purpose of education and curtailment of power usage, and a version of this piece was on view in the exhibition, Speculative Data and the Creative Imaginary, a component of the 2007 Creativity and Cognition conference.
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Routinizing the Discovery of Secrets: Computers as Informants.
Gary T. Marx,Nancy Reichman +1 more
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The right of privacy in the computer age
TL;DR: Freedman as discussed by the authors delineates the substance and parameters of the right of privacy, the practices that violate it, and available judicial remedies, incorporating practically oriented commentary on applicable case law.