Energy Theft Detection in Smart Grids with Genetic Algorithm-Based Feature Selection

Umair, Muhammad and Saeed, Zafar and Saeed, Faisal and Ishtiaq, Hiba and Zubair, Muhammad and Abdel Hameed, Hala (2022) Energy Theft Detection in Smart Grids with Genetic Algorithm-Based Feature Selection. Computers, Materials and Continua, 74 (3). ISSN 1546-2218

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Abstract

As big data, its technologies, and application continue to advance, the Smart Grid (SG) has become one of the most successful pervasive and fixed computing platforms that efficiently uses a data-driven approach and employs efficient information and communication technology (ICT) and cloud computing. As a result of the complicated architecture of cloud computing, the distinctive working of advanced metering infrastructures (AMI), and the use of sensitive data, it has become challenging to make the SG secure. Faults of the SG are categorized into two main categories, Technical Losses (TLs) and Non-Technical Losses (NTLs). Hardware failure, communication issues, ohmic losses, and energy burnout during transmission and propagation of energy are TLs. NTL’s are human-induced errors for malicious purposes such as attacking sensitive data and electricity theft, along with tampering with AMI for bill reduction by fraudulent customers. This research proposes a data-driven methodology based on principles of computational intelligence as well as big data analysis to identify fraudulent customers based on their load profile. In our proposed methodology, a hybrid Genetic Algorithm and Support Vector Machine (GA-SVM) model has been used to extract the relevant subset of feature data from a large and unsupervised public smart grid project dataset in London, UK, for theft detection. A subset of 26 out of 71 features is obtained with a classification accuracy of 96.6%, compared to studies conducted on small and limited datasets.

Item Type: Article
Identification Number: https://doi.org/10.32604/cmc.2023.033884
Dates:
DateEvent
3 October 2021Accepted
28 December 2022Published Online
Uncontrolled Keywords: Big data, data analysis, feature engineering, genetic algorithm, machine learning
Subjects: CAH11 - computing > CAH11-01 - computing > CAH11-01-01 - computer science
CAH11 - computing > CAH11-01 - computing > CAH11-01-05 - artificial intelligence
Divisions: Faculty of Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment > School of Computing and Digital Technology
Depositing User: Faisal Saeed
Date Deposited: 03 Jan 2023 11:47
Last Modified: 06 Jan 2023 13:31
URI: https://www.open-access.bcu.ac.uk/id/eprint/14041

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