A survey on internet of energy security: related fields, challenges, threats and emerging technologies

The need for security has never been more than this for the structure of today’s world. Emerging industrial revolutions started to shapeshift many well-known applications to address topics that concern the human race because of the change done to the ecological system regarding carbon emission and environmental pollution. IoE will be the vertical application for this greener innovation projected to have many IoT devices in many fields. The repercussion of mischievous attacks on this new technology would be a calamity in both physical meanings and trustworthiness; the rapid escalation in the number of eco-friendly services developments will have a massive blowback, especially while we are on the 5G doorstep. Focusing on security will help promote the expansion of IoE and greener solutions and the relationship for exploiting the benefits of the smart grid, cloud computing, internet of vehicles. Though this is a new area of research, it has attracted significant attention already. Still, many studies have been done separately to examine the challenges from various angles without reflecting the chronological growth of this technology and security aspects to achieve better strategies. This paper represents a survey related to the surrounding concerns and comparisons for IoE before and after involvement in such services as no survey covers the broad aspect of this topic, discussing its future research opportunities, the raised concern regarding it. Motivated by that to deliver this paper, we identify security as a significant centric topic that can be addressed with innovative approaches and solutions to secure our system through various approaches.