scholarly journals Enhancing privacy in smart energy systems

2019 ◽  
Vol 137 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-37
Author(s):  
Dominik Engel
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Renewable Energy Sources ◽  
Personal Data ◽  
Energy Systems ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Energy Sources ◽  
Distribution Grid ◽  
Smart Energy Systems ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Ev Charging

AbstractThe mission to move from fossil to renewable energy sources is accompanied and enabled by the digitalization of our energy systems. With the introduction of information and communication technologies, the widespread integration of distributed, renewable sources, even in the distribution grid, are enabled. New use cases such as fast EV charging, local energy communities and dynamic energy tariffs are also enabled. However, this move toward digitalization also increases the exposure of the energy systems for cybercrime and raises concerns regarding the privacy of personal data. In this article, we address the issue of privacy in smart energy systems and give an overview of current methods to enhance privacy.

scholarly journals Towards sustainable ICT

2019 ◽  
Vol 119 ◽  
pp. 00016
Author(s):  
Michela Meo
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Rapid Growth ◽  
Renewable Energy Sources ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Energy Sources ◽  
Energy Aware ◽  
Communication Services ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Sustainable Services

While information and communication technologies (ICT) can play a crucial role in tackling issues related to sustainability, and reducing resource consumption in every sector, they also consume huge amounts of energy, andthis, combined with the predicted rapid growth of demand for communication services, is expected to make the whole sector more and more energy-hungry in the coming years. The sustainability of ICT itself is also becoming an urgent challenge. Actions can be taken in several directions: i) introducing a massive and pervasive use of renewable energy sources, a step that requires the design of communication services to be revised; ii) enforcing rules and policies that induce the provisioning of sustainable services and promote the adoption of proper attitudes; and iii) involving the users who will become conscious consumers and participate in crowdsourcing projects tomonitor consumption and foster energy-aware behaviours.

Being visible in public space: The normalisation of asymmetrical visibility

Urban Studies ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 54 (4) ◽  
pp. 984-998 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tali Hatuka ◽  
Eran Toch
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Personal Data ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Android Application ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Online Tracking ◽  
Physical Spaces

Over recent decades, cities have been radically transformed by information and communication technologies (ICTs) that modify people’s daily lives by reorganising mobility, infrastructure systems and physical spaces. However, in addition to the role that technology plays in the development of the infrastructure in our cities, it is also being used ‘as a means of control’. This view of technology as a disciplinary tool that restructures space, time and the relations among activities has been promoted by scholars who have shown that technology is also a means of saturating and sustaining contemporary capitalist societies and deepening inequalities. However, the situation is far more complex than that. Technology is not only used top-down but also bottom-up, with individuals using technological devices to share and enhance their visibility in space. This bidirectional paradigm – of vertical surveillance and horizontal sharing – contributes to a sense of ‘being exposed’ in public space that normalises practices of sharing personal data by individuals and thus results in diminished privacy. This argument is supported by an experiment conducted on smartphone users that includes personal interviews and the use of a smartphone Android application that combines online tracking with experience sampling. The findings show a convergence between the online and offline worlds (a ‘public’ situation in the offline world is also considered as such in the online world), which is a condition that contributes to the normalisation of ‘asymmetrical visibility’. Based on these results, the paper ends with a discussion of the contemporary meaning of public space.

scholarly journals DIGITALIZATION AS A DIRECTION OF TRANSFORMATION OF CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS

2021 ◽  
pp. 96-102
Author(s):  
T. О. Pavlova
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Personal Data ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Cyber Attacks ◽  
Electronic Systems ◽  
Criminal Proceedings ◽  
Systematic Analysis ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Legislative Changes ◽  
Analytical System

The article is devoted to the study of the influence of the process of digitalization on the transformation of modern criminal proceedings, the functioning of the institution of justice in general. The introduction of electronic criminal proceedings in our country is due to the development of a modern electronic society and trends in the introduction of information and communication technologies in the world. Electronic criminal proceedings is a “smart” information and analytical system that digitizes paper documents, allows the exchange of files within the framework of criminal proceedings. It is proposed to carry out a detailed and systematic analysis of the provisions of the current national legislation in order to introduce the appropriate substantiated legislative changes and consolidate the concept, stages, and algorithm of the electronic criminal proceedings; the introduction of electronic criminal proceedings on the basis of the functioning of Unified Register of Pre-trial Inquiry. Electronic criminal proceedings are an inevitable phenomenon of the modern information world. For the quality of operation of electronic criminal proceedings, it is necessary to take into account the advantages and risks of the functioning of a “smart” system. The advantages of introducing electronic criminal proceedings include: saving money and time; reduction of terms for consideration of procedural documents; simplification of access of subjects of criminal proceedings within their competence to procedural materials; increasing the efficiency of the investigation of criminal proceedings and so on. The introduction of electronic criminal proceedings should take place quite deliberately, with the understanding that digital technologies will inevitably affect relationship between people and the formation of their thinking. We believe that digital intelligence is not capable to replace a specialist completely. The digitalization of criminal proceedings will entail certain risks and difficulties. It is necessary to protect the collected personal data, which will prevent the drafting of clone documents and the «leaking» of confidential information in connection with cyber-attacks. It is also necessary to protect the provision of necessary equipment for law enforcement officers and judges in the field; the need to integrate among themselves the working electronic systems of the pre-trial inquiry bodies and the court; training of personnel capable of working with digital computer technologies and so on.

scholarly journals Heading Towards 100% of Renewable Energy Sources Fraction: a critical overview on Smart Energy Systems planning and flexibility measures

2020 ◽  
Vol 197 ◽  
pp. 01003
Author(s):  
Lorenzo Mario Pastore ◽  
Gianluigi Lo Basso ◽  
Matteo Sforzini ◽  
Livio de Santoli
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy Sources ◽  
Energy Systems ◽  
Energy System ◽  
Energy Planning ◽  
Energy Sources ◽  
International Studies ◽  
Main Challenge ◽  
Smart Energy Systems ◽  
New Energy ◽  
Flexibility Measures

The growing penetration of non-programmable energy sources will largely contribute to intensify the renewable capacity firming issues. Providing a higher systems flexibility, i.e. the ability to match the supply and the demand sides as much as possible, is the main challenge to cope with, by adopting new energy planning paradigms. In this framework, different combined strategies, aiming at efficiently integrating that large amount of variable RES (VRES), have to be implemented. In the recent years, the Smart Energy Systems (SES) concept has been introduced to overcome the single-sector approach, promoting a holistic and integrated vision. By that approach, it is possible to exploit synergies between different energy sectors so as to identify the best technical options to globally reduce the primary fossil energy consumption. Starting from a quantitative and qualitative analysis of the most recent international studies dealing with the SES approach, the aim of this paper is to critically review and analyse the role of the main potential flexibility measures applied in the energy planning sector. In detail, Power-to-X and Demand Side Management (DSM) application have been considered, highlighting strengths and weaknesses of such strategies to accomplish the ambitious target of 100% renewable. From this literature review, it emerges how a single strategy adoption is not enough to guarantee the required flexibility level for the whole energy system. Indeed, the best configuration can be attained by integrating different options matching all the external constraints.

Energy in 3D

2017 ◽  
pp. 444-463
Author(s):  
Giuliana Finco
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Virtual Worlds ◽  
Smart City ◽  
City Planning ◽  
Renewable Energy Sources ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Solar Panels ◽  
Interactive Games ◽  
Information And Communication

The course is developed from the study in Life Sciences and energy, till the deepening about the fossil and renewable sources, with video display, animations, little experiments, interactive games and multimedia presentations using the IWB of the renewable energy sources. After scoring a summary of key information, we switch to implement a Smart city planning workshop, drawing three-dimensionally objects with the 3D graphic application Sketchup, until build the city furnished with solar panels placed on the roofs. At the end of the trail, the educational activities are implemented in the Virtual World Scuola3D supported by a proactive and creative way to educate pupils by conscious and creative use of information and communication technologies, with the use of 3D and virtual worlds for live at three-dimensional virtual experience until they are able to design and build a three-dimensional ideal city, the “Smart city” for a sustainable future.

scholarly journals Data Centers Optimized Integration with Multi-Energy Grids: Test Cases and Results in Operational Environment

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (23) ◽  
pp. 9893
Author(s):  
Tudor Cioara ◽  
Marcel Antal ◽  
Claudia Daniela Antal (Pop) ◽  
Ionut Anghel ◽  
Massimo Bertoncini ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Thermal Energy ◽  
Data Centers ◽  
Energy Savings ◽  
Renewable Energy Sources ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Primary Energy ◽  
Test Cases ◽  
Operational Environment ◽  
Information And Communication

In this paper, we address the management of Data Centers (DCs) by considering their optimal integration with the electrical, thermal, and IT (Information Technology) networks helping them to meet sustainability objectives and gain primary energy savings. Innovative scenarios are defined for exploiting the DCs electrical, thermal, and workload flexibility as a commodity and Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) are proposed and used as enablers for the scenarios’ implementation. The technology and scenarios were evaluated in the context of two operational DCs: a micro DC in Poznan which has on-site renewable sources and a DC in Point Saint Martin. The test cases’ results validate the possibility of using renewable energy sources (RES) for exploiting DCs’ energy flexibility and the potential of combining IT load migration with the availability of RES to increase the amount of energy flexibility by finding a trade-off between the flexibility level, IT load Quality of Service (QoS), and the RES production level. Moreover, the experiments conducted show that the DCs can successfully adapt their thermal energy profile for heat re-use as well as the combined electrical and thermal energy profiles to match specific flexibility requests.

scholarly journals CRIMES ASSOCIATED WITH THE USE OF ELECTRONIC PAYMENT MEANS: METHODS AND TRACE INFORMATION

2022 ◽  
pp. 91-97
Author(s):  
P. Borovik
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Personal Data ◽  
Criminal Activity ◽  
Social Engineering ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Forensic Analysis ◽  
Electronic Payment ◽  
Unauthorized Access ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Modern Information

The results of a forensic analysis of typical methods of committing crimes involving the use of electronic payment methods are presented. It is shown that the basis of this criminal activity are the methods of social engineering based on the application of the achievements of modern information and communication technologies, as well as on actions and approaches through which offenders gain unauthorized access to the personal data of the victim. Taking into account the study of the stages of the mechanism of the considered criminal acts, the sources of trace information are formulated, reflecting the processes of interaction of participants in a criminal event with each other and with the environment.

Cybersecurity Laws in Malaysia

2020 ◽  
pp. 435-448
Author(s):  
Olivia Swee Leng Tan ◽  
Rossanne Gale Vergara ◽  
Raphael C. W. Phan ◽  
Shereen Khan ◽  
Nasreen Khan
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Emergency Response ◽  
Data Protection ◽  
Personal Data ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Penal Code ◽  
Personal Data Protection ◽  
Ict Use ◽  
Response Team ◽  
Information And Communication

The progression of information and communication technologies (ICT) use have been matched by the rise in corruption and abuse of technology for criminal activities. In 2018, The Malaysia Computer Emergency Response Team reported 10,699 incidents, of which “fraud” had the highest reported incidents (5,123) and the second highest “intrusion attempt” (1,805) of the total incidents. Malaysia cyber laws have existed since 1997 and are still used today to prosecute cybercrimes. Most recent cases were charged under Malaysian laws—Computer Crimes Act 1997, Copyright (Amendment) Act 1997, Communications and Multimedia Act 1998, Personal Data Protection Act 2010, and Malaysian Penal Code—to combat cybercrimes. This chapter discusses Malaysia's cyber laws, cases charged under these laws, and their relevance to combating cybercrimes in Malaysia.

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