I-Corps: Novel Smart Meters with Built-in Self-Test and Hardware Security

I-Corps：具有内置自检和硬件安全功能的新型智能电表

• 批准号: 1646723
• 负责人: Mohammed Niamat
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: University of Toledo
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-08-15 至 2017-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1646723&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Corps; Novel; Smart; Meters; Built

The broader impact/commercial potential of this I-Corps project is based on enhancing the reliability, longevity, security, and trustworthiness of the advanced metering infrastructure in smart grids. The integration of trustworthy information technology in the power grid will facilitate effective and efficient energy management in the presence of distributed generation with renewable sources. This team's technology, employing hardware-oriented security and trust, built-in self-test, and device authentication, can be applied to any industry that employs VLSI/FPGA chips and faces security risks. For example, this technology can be integrated into medical instrumentation in the health industry and dash-board chips in vehicles in the auto industry to make them more secure, reliable, and trustworthy.This I-Corps project is based on earlier NSF funded research in the area of hardware-oriented security and testing of digital/integrated circuits. Its application in smart meters overcomes current meters problems by providing remote re-configurability to accommodate current and future technology advancements and additional security. While there are multiple smart meter manufacturers in the US, this project's technology has a strong focus on hardware re-programmability (leading to increased longevity and expandability), reliability, and security of the system. Also, current smart meters are not easily updated as technology advances. The proposed meters provide high security, based on special hardware based techniques, and incorporate built-in self-test circuitry. Hardware-oriented security is implemented using physical unclonable functions which provide authentication and trust to the programmable chip and also establish the authenticity of the smart meter. The meters can also detect the presence of hardware Trojans, which can be implanted by untrusted manufacturers and foundries abroad, to steal information or hamper the functionality of the device.

这个I-Corps项目的更广泛的影响/商业潜力是基于增强智能电网中先进计量基础设施的可靠性、寿命、安全性和可信度。将可靠的信息技术纳入电网将有助于在采用可再生能源的分布式发电的情况下进行有效和高效的能源管理。该团队的技术采用面向硬件的安全和信任，内置自检和设备认证，可应用于任何使用VLSI/FPGA芯片并面临安全风险的行业。例如，该技术可以集成到医疗行业的医疗仪器和汽车行业的汽车仪表板芯片中，使其更加安全、可靠和值得信赖。这个I-Corps项目是基于早期NSF资助的面向硬件的安全和数字/集成电路测试领域的研究。它在智能电表中的应用通过提供远程可重新配置来克服电流表的问题，以适应当前和未来的技术进步和额外的安全性。虽然美国有多家智能电表制造商，但该项目的技术非常注重硬件可重新编程性（从而增加寿命和可扩展性）、可靠性和系统安全性。此外，随着技术的进步，目前的智能电表不容易更新。建议的仪表提供高安全性，基于特殊的硬件技术，并纳入内置的自检电路。面向硬件的安全性是使用物理不可克隆功能来实现的，这些功能为可编程芯片提供认证和信任，并且还建立智能电表的真实性。这些仪表还可以检测硬件木马的存在，这些木马可以由不受信任的制造商和国外代工厂植入，以窃取信息或妨碍设备的功能。