Fostering Trust in Smart Inverters: A Framework for Firmware Update Management and Tracking in VPP Context

arXiv:2404.18453v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Ensuring the reliability and security of smart inverters that provide the interface between distributed energy resources (DERs) and the power grid becomes paramount with the surge in integrating DERs into the (smart) power grid. Despite the importance of having updated firmware / software versions within a reasonable time frame, existing methods for establishing trust through firmware updates lack effective historical tracking and verification. This paper introduces a novel framework to manage and track firmware update …

arxiv context cs.cr cs.sy distributed distributed energy distributed energy resources eess.sy energy energy resources firmware firmware update framework grid interface management paramount power power grid reliability resources security smart tracking trust update