STRAPLINE
Power utilities and telecom providers working together on building secure, reliable, and economical communication networks for smart grids.
CONTENT o o o
Together, power utilities and telecom operators can offer more cost effective, reliable, and secure communication networking solutions for future smart grids, with distributed energy sources located at prosumers ’ premises.
Integrating an Embedded UICC (eUICC) inside each node within the smart grid, regardless of the access type of the communication medium (mobile, wireline, power line) ensures secure authentication and information transfer, and will also protect the credentials stored inside the devices from physical attacks.
Wide area measurement system nodes with eUICC and elaborate power grid measurement capabilities are crucial elements for ensuring the monitoring and control of power networks to implement advanced smart grid functionalities.
TOGETHER, TELECOM OPERATORS AND UTILITY POWER DISTRIBUTIONS
CAN BUILD BETTER FUTURE SECURE COMMUNICATION NETWORKS FOR
SMART GRIDS.
Future smart grids will be organised as a dense collection of interconnected sources of distributed energy generation. Today, most of us are consumers of electricity, but we will become producers, too, thus transforming into prosumers with manageable demand response. Prosumer participation will require cost efficient access to power grids and also cost efficient access to communication infrastructure and services. 
 Telecoms can offer widespread access to communication services and information exchange in a secure, reliable and cost effective manner as the enabler of future smart grids. Smart grids are a combination of power distribution and management, with the ability to connect to communication networks. This enables monitoring and control of such large scale distributed generation systems and offers prosumers the same level of comfort as todays power grids: affordable, reliable electricity for all. 
 Telecom operators, as owners and operators of communications infrastructure, can help utility power distribution companies in achieving this new reality. Existing telecoms ’ communications infrastructure can be reused for smart grids, without requiring much additional capital investments. As such it can be integrated with utilities to cost-effectively design, build, and operate dense smart grids.
Furthermore, as a natural extension from managing communication networks, telecoms can develop their role to provide secure authentication and secure access, thus becoming trusted smart grid providers. Tight collaboration between
Project "SUNSEED: Sustainable and robust networking for smart electricity distribution" is partially funded by EC FP7 programme under Grant agreement #619437.

utilities and telecom operators, with new innovative business models, from concept to realisation and maintenance of communications networks for smart grid will significantly lower the investment, operation, and total costs of ownership for future secure smart grids.
CHALLENGES OF COLLABORATIVE SMART GRIDS
SUNSEED proposes an evolutionary approach to harnessing joint converged communication infrastructures for future smart energy grid services. Its life cycle matches the joint communication networking operations of power utility (DSO) and telecommunication operators and thus promises much lower investments and total cost of ownership for future smart energy grids covering a wide range of large, densely distributed energy generation and e-vehicle charging infrastructures. 
 The smart grid concept has been known for years and essentially requires combining energy and communication grids with a collection of sensors, measurement points, and sophisticated control algorithms for the whole system to operate properly. Obviously, such a solution requires the power utility to deploy the required communication networks. Investigating how to overlap, combine, and interconnect, i.e. converge, DSO and telecom communication networks with the most suitable choice of infrastructure solutions for densely distributed energy generation environment smart energy 
 grids. The evolutionary growth path from the existing communication network domains of both utilities and for the last mile to the network operations centre path (from home to neighbourhood to wide area communication networks). Part of the
SUNSEED analysis and field trial goals is assessing the viable communication network solutions for these networks when viewed holistically from a combined
DSO-telecom perspective.
SUNSEED will provide answers to proposed converged DSO-telecom communication network operations for realisation in future smart grids not by pushing performance, but rather by optimizing the cost function of future smart grid networks, starting with the most costly and investment-hungry part: utilizing existing communication networks of DSO and telecom providers.
A smart grid cannot be managed without situational awareness enabled by a dense network of sensors and control elements, collectively called a wide area measurement system (WAMS), or further wide area monitoring protection and control
(WAMPAC) nodes that are placed at strategic positions within the grid to make it fully monitored and thus providing full control.
Secure authentication, secure access, and the flow of information will be assured by incorporating trusted and secure elements in the form of eUICC, which is integrated during the fabrication process into each WAMS node, regardless of its communication medium, be it mobile, wireline, or power line.
It is our objective from the smart energy-grid perspective to ensure the required levels of scalability, reliability and throughput performance of converged, heterogeneous
DSO-telecom communications solution.
Project "SUNSEED: Sustainable and robust networking for smart electricity distribution" is partially funded by EC FP7 programme under Grant agreement #619437.

SUNSEED OBJECTIVES IN THE CONTEXT OF SMART GRIDS o o o o o
Develop new business models for joint planning, deployment, and operation of power utility and telecommunications infrastructures to achieve optimal benefits for the society and stimulate future smart grid growth and new services.
Develop an advanced metering and control node, to act as a WAMS (wide area measurement system) node designed as a sensor node central to real time event tracking and control within a smart grid network and to make dynamic power control possible for charging stations or from DEG islands.
Develop secure authentication, access, and communication mechanisms agnostic of communication medium and implementation.
Develop analytical tools integrating multiple data sources and bring intelligence to a real-time smart grid management platform, with an integrated visual presentation system, combining power (e.g. energy flow patterns), communication (e.g. information flow patterns), and authentication status for all nodes in a system.
Set up a large-scale field trial (> 1000 smart grid and WAMS nodes), as a proving ground for proposed solutions.
MWC DEMO SCRIPT
SUNSEED (http://sunseed-fp7.eu/) is an FP7 research project funded by the
European Commission. It proposes to combine communication networks from both power utility (DSO) and telecom operators (telco) to create a converged communication infrastructure for future smart energy grids offering open services. The reasons and the rationale to explore such a partnership between telco and DSO operators will be detailed during the demo 
 SUNSEED will involve the deployment of a pilot smart grid of more than a thousand data acquisition and transmission nodes (WAMS), enabling precise monitoring of the state of the grid.
The demo itself will focus on a scenario where the WAMS node transmits voltage and current measurements via an IP network connection which can possibly, but not necessarily, be a cellular network connection. 
 Those measurements are monitored and displayed by a remote application. The demo is about securing and authorizing the interaction between the WAMS node and the monitoring application. It will show how an embedded UICC inside the WAMS node is used to protect the credentials stored in the device, and secure the data transmission from/to the WAMS node. In this scenario, the telco, acting as a
“trust manager”, facilitates the remote management of the credentials stored in the device. 
 The demo will also show the management of authorizations for granting or revoking the rights for applications to interact with specific WAMS nodes.
Project "SUNSEED: Sustainable and robust networking for smart electricity distribution" is partially funded by EC FP7 programme under Grant agreement #619437.