A Smart-Frame for Information Management of Smart Grid in a Secure Cloud

Smart grid is a technological innovation in the Power Industry sector that improves reliability, efficiency, economics, and sustainability of electricity services. While this modern energy infrastructure plays a crucial role, it also has its own set of challenges. The key areas of focus are about efficiently managing their critical devices such as power assets and smart meters. It also includes the need to process the huge volume of data received from these devices. Cloud computing is a technology that gives computational resources on demand and at a very short lead time, is a good candidate for addressing these challenges. This technology complies with several good properties such as energy and cost saving, scalability, agility and flexibility. We introduce "Smart-Frame", a framework for information management in a secure cloud environment. The key function of this framework is to build 3 levels of hierarchical structure for data management, using cloud computing centers and end-user devices. This frame work will provide different types of computing services for information management and analysis. In addition to this framework, a homomorphic encryption based security solution is included to address critical security concerns of the proposed framework.