News & Events
Jeremy Bryans wins Early Career Researcher grant
Dr Jeremy Bryans of the CPLab has won highly competitive Early Career Researcher funding from the Institute for Sustainability to carry out a sustainability analysis of a smart grid communications infrastructure.
He will investigate the resilience of smart grids by analysing the ways in which the different elements communicate with each other using the Smart Grid Lab at Newcastle University. The resilience of computing elements is a key aspect of sustainability of Integrated Infrastructure Systems – one of the three global research challenges in the field of sustainability tackled by the Institute for Sustainability. Jeremys’ project will model the smart grid infrastructure, produce a model of potential faults including cyberattacks, and use the modelling for smart grid resilience policy. Once designed the models could be used by key stakeholders using the Decision Theatre at Science Central.
"We can model the fault or the security attack and observe the consequences it would have on infrastructure, then make recommendations for policy on that basis", says Jeremy. Through modelling it is possible to know the things the software should do to make smart grids more resilient. The mathematical models used by Jeremy will check all possible states the grid could be in to make sure "it doesn’t get to a point where it locks up".
Using models from the project there may be potential to design software for making smart grids resilient to security attacks or unforeseen faults in the system. Software could also make smart grids more resilient in the event of a terrorist attack. "If there is a physical attack on a smart grid we can use the software to detect and compensate for that kind of damage", says Jeremy.
Last modified: Tue, 03 Mar 2015 14:37:30 GMT
