Technologies for detecting abnormal activities in an electric vehicle charging station
AssigneeABB Schweiz AG
InventorsJunho Hong, Hyojong Lee, Zhenyuan Wang
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Abstract
Technologies for detecting abnormal activities in an electric vehicle charging station include an apparatus. The apparatus includes circuitry configured determine a cyber security threat level for the charging station in which the electric vehicle charger is located. Additionally, the circuitry is configured to perform, as a function of the determined cyber security threat level, a responsive action to protect the charging station from a cyber security threat.
Claims18
An apparatus comprising:
- circuitry configured to:
- determine a cyber security threat level for a charging station in which an electric vehicle charger is located, wherein the cyber security threat level is defined by whether one or more anomalies indicative of cyberattack(s) are present, including determining whether false data indicative of an incorrect status of a connection to a utility has been injected into a communication connection of the charging station by comparing (i) data identified as originating from a charging station management system and pertaining to the connection status to the utility to (ii) data received from multiple electric vehicle chargers of the charging station and pertaining to the utility to identify a discrepancy;
- and
- perform, as a function of the determined cyber security threat level, a responsive action to block a communication connection to the charging station in order to protect the charging station from a cyber security threat.
A method comprising:
- determining, by an apparatus, a cyber security threat level for a charging station in which an electric vehicle charger is located, wherein the cyber security threat level is defined by whether one or more anomalies indicative of cyberattack(s) are present, including determining whether false data indicative of an incorrect status of a connection to a utility has been injected into a communication connection of the charging station by comparing (i) data identified as originating from a charging station management system and pertaining to the connection status to the utility to (ii) data received from multiple electric vehicle chargers of the charging station and pertaining to the utility to identify a discrepancy;
- and
- performing, by the apparatus and as a function of the determined cyber security threat level, a responsive action to block a communication connection to the charging station in order to protect the charging station from a cyber security threat.
One or more machine-readable storage media comprising a plurality of instructions stored thereon that, in response to being executed, cause an apparatus to:
- determine a cyber security threat level for a charging station in which an electric vehicle charger is located, wherein the cyber security threat level is defined by whether one or more anomalies indicative of cyberattack(s) are present, including determining whether false data indicative of an incorrect status of a connection to a utility has been injected into a communication connection by comparing (i) data identified as originating from a charging station management system and pertaining to the connection status to the utility to (ii) data received from multiple electric vehicle chargers of the charging station and pertaining to the utility to identify a discrepancy;
- and
- perform, as a function of the determined cyber security threat level, a responsive action to block a communication connection to the charging station in order to protect the charging station from a cyber security threat.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.