The Impact of GPS Vulnerabilities on the Electric Power Grid |
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| Bernhard Baumgartner, Christian Riesch, Wolfgang Schenk |
- Abstract:
- The failure of time references can result in operational distortions of power plants or substations. Rumours say that simply a truck, illegally equipped with a GPS jammer to camouflage its position, parking outside a substation can cause GPS failure in the substation. Is this really true? How vulnerable are today's GPS synchronized time references? And what are the consequences of short term to long term GPS reception losses? In this paper the authors address these questions for different time synchronisation infrastructures and applications in the power industry. The paper concludes with an assessment of possible countermeasures against GPS Jamming and GPS Spoofing.
- Keywords:
- Time Synchronisation, GPS Jamming, GPS Spoofing, GPS Time reference, Power
- Download:
- IMEKO-TC4-2014-462.pdf
- DOI:
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- Event details
- IMEKO TC:
- TC4
- Event name:
- TC4 Symposium 2014
- Title:
20th IMEKO TC4 Symposium on Measurements of Electrical Quantities (together with 18th TC4 International Workshop on ADC and DCA Modeling and Testing, IWADC)
"Research on Electrical and Electronic Measurement for the Economic Upturn"- Place:
- Benevento, ITALY
- Time:
- 15 September 2014 - 17 September 2014