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Smart Grid Testing The Smart Grid Testing group researches new holistic and cross-departmental approaches to operational management, cyber security and situation awareness of intelligent energy networks.
The undergoing energy transition from fossil fuels to high penetration of renewable energy sources changes the view on power systems. The integration of distributed energy resources together with new market participants (e.g. Prosumers), causes stress and uncertainty to the grid. Digitalization counteracts this effect by introducing advanced solutions based on information and communication technologies (ICT), emerging so-called Smart Grids, while poses new challenges due to an increased complexity, interdependencies between power and ICT, making the ICT-related issues such as cyber security more relevant and critical.
Key challenges in Smart Grids are to develop and evaluate new holistic and multi-domain approaches for operational management, cyber security and situational awareness. With the help of unique test infrastructure at OFFIS, Smart Energy Simulation and Automation Laboratory (SESA-Lab), the research group “Smart Grid Testing” (SGT) researches on the following topics to tackle these challenges:
- Multi-domain simulation environments under real-time capabilities with focus on power and ICT domain as well as hardware-in-the-loop and SCADA applications
- Integration of innovative and experimental functions, services and applications into SCADA systems
- Assessment and improvement of operational cyber security
- Investigation of virtualization concepts to the engineering process and operational management of substation automation systems
- Trust assessment of components, processes, and services in a Smart Grid by means of functional correctness, safety, security, reliability, credibility, and usability
Persons 
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Dr.-Ing. Jirapa Kamsamrong
E-Mail: jirapa.kamsamrong(at)offis.de, Phone: +49 441 9722-233, Room: E85
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Projects
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ERIGrid 2.0
European Research Infrastructure supporting Smart Grid Systems Technology Development, Validation and Roll Out
Duration: 2020 - 2024I
i-Autonomous
Standardization and integration of modular-autonomous automation components in novel, intelligent local network stations
Duration: 2019 - 2022 R
Publications
2021
A comprehensive analysis of threats and countermeasures in virtualized cyber-physical energy systems
Shadi Attarha, Carsten Krüger, Jirapa Kamsamrong, Davood Babazadeh, Sebastian Lehnhoff; Conference proceeding; September / 2021
Modern Trends and Skill Gaps of Cyber Security in Smart Grid
Björn Siemers, Shadi Attarha, Jirapa Kamsamrong, Michael Brand, Maria Valliou, Ruta Pirta-Dreimane, Janis Grabis, Nadezhda Kunicina, Mike Mekkanen, Tero Vartiainen and Sebastian Lehnhoff; IEEE EUROCON-2021 (2021 IEEE 19th International Conference on Smart Technologies (EUROCON)) ; 06 / 2021
2020
Operational testing of virtual and physical IEDs using GOOSE for protection application
Shoaib Ansari, Pratyush Das, Dennis Weller, Petra Raussi, Davood Babazadeh; Proceedings for The 15th International Conference on Developments in Power System Protection; March / 2020
Real-time Test Platform for Enabling Grid Service Virtualisation in Cyber Physical Energy System
Krüger, Carsten and Narayan, Anand and Castro, Felipe and Hassan, Batoul Hage and Attarha, Shadi and Babazadeh, Davood and Lehnhoff, Sebastian; 2020 25th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA); 2020
Virtualization Management Concept for Flexible and Fault-tolerant Smart Grid Service Provision
Attarha, Shadi and Narayan, Anand and Hage Hassan, Batoul and Krüger, Carsten and Castro, Felipe and Babazadeh, Davood and Lehnhoff, Sebastian; Energies; May / 2020
2019
Controller Development for Reactive Power Flow Management Between DSO and TSO Networks
K. Sirviö and M. Mekkanen and K. Kauhaniemi and H. Laaksonen and A. Salo and F. Castro and S. Ansari and D. Babazadeh; 2019 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Europe (ISGT-Europe); Sep. / 2019
Towards Virtualization of Operational Technology to Enable Large-Scale System Testing
Shoaib Ansari, Felipe Castro, Dennis Weller, Davood Babazadeh, Sebastian Lehnhoff; Proceedings for 2019 Eurocon; July / 2019
2018
Co-simulation Set-up for Testing Controller Interactions in Distribution Networks
Jorge Velasquez, Felipe Castro, Davood Babazadeh, Sebastian Lehnhoff, Thomas Kumm, Daniel Heuberger, Riccardo Treydel, Tim Lueken, Steffen Garske, Lutz Hofmann; July / 2018
Flexible and Reconfigurable Data Sharing for Smart Grid Functions
Carsten KrügerJorge VelasquezDavood BabazadehSebastian Lehnhoff; Energy Informatics; 2018
