Electricity Theft Detection in AMI Using Customers' Consumption Patterns

• Published in: IEEE transactions on smart grid Vol. 7; no. 1; pp. 216 - 226
• Main Authors: Jokar, Paria, Arianpoo, Nasim, Leung, Victor C. M.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01.01.2016
• Subjects: Accuracy; Advanced metering infrastructure (AMI); Customers; Detectors; Energy consumption; energy theft; Measuring instruments; Metering; Meters; Monitoring; smart grid; Smart meters; Support vector machines; Theft; Training; Transformers; energy theft; Advanced metering infrastructure (AMI); smart grid

As one of the key components of the smart grid, advanced metering infrastructure brings many potential advantages such as load management and demand response. However, computerizing the metering system also introduces numerous new vectors for energy theft. In this paper, we present a novel consumpti...