Encrypted Energy Flow Validation Across Distributed Grid Nodes
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing methods for verifying the proportion of green energy in energy consumption, such as Guarantees of Origin (GOs), are centralized and do not guarantee simultaneous production and consumption, making it difficult to scale and maintain data confidentiality.
Innovation Solution
A method for validating a multiflow allocation of energy or energetic matter using encryption and a blockchain, allowing nodes to verify compliance with predefined conditions without a trusted third party, ensuring data confidentiality and scalability.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a single centralized system is used to manage energy distribution, then system simplicity is maintained, but the system cannot handle fluctuating energy demands and risk concentration increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent divides the centralized energy management system into multiple autonomous energy nodes distributed across the network. Each node can independently manage energy production, storage, and distribution locally, enabling the system to handle fluctuating demands through decentralized decision-making while maintaining overall system coordination.
2Reliability
If validation rules are made comprehensive to ensure security, then system security improves, but processing time and complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements pre-validation of energy nodes and their credentials before they join the network. Security credentials, node identities, and authorization levels are verified in advance, allowing comprehensive security checks to be performed beforehand rather than during each transaction, thus reducing real-time validation time while maintaining high security standards.
3Productivity
If manual validation processes are used, then system control is maintained, but processing speed and automation level decrease
Solution Approach 1:
The patent enables energy nodes to automatically validate their own credentials and authenticate transactions using cryptographic signatures and pre-stored security credentials. The system performs self-validation without requiring manual intervention, significantly increasing processing speed while maintaining security through automated cryptographic verification mechanisms.
4Adaptability or versatility
If energy distribution is centralized, then system control is simplified, but risk concentration and single point of failure increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transitions the system from a single-dimensional centralized architecture to a multi-dimensional distributed network structure. Energy nodes are arranged in a network topology where multiple paths exist for energy flow and information exchange, adding spatial and organizational dimensions that enhance resilience while managing complexity through standardized node interfaces and protocols.
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AI summary
Method for validating a multiple flow for assigning energy or energy material (F) between nodes Ni of a network of participants, this multiple flow comprising coefficients corresponding to a quantity of energy which has been produced, stored, taken from storage and/or consumed within the network of participants, this method comprising the steps, for a given node Ni, of: • encrypting at least the coefficients of the multiple flow involving this node in order to obtain encrypted data, • publication, by means of a data-processing network, of the encrypted data so as to allow each node Ni to emit in return a validation message which certifies compliance with a predefined condition between the data of (F) and the real production, stock level or consumption values observed at the node Ni, • recording the validation messages sent by the nodes of the network of participants so as to allow the validation of the coefficients of the multiple flow.