**5. Conclusions**

In this paper, we have proposed a user-aware power regulatory model with a location-based service selection approach for smart grids. The model provides functionality for smart meters to update the user details to the cloud as well be displayed on a smart meter display. Depending on the recommendations from the smart meter display, the users can change their usage patterns. As per the design, the proposed model manages the power supply to all its connecting units and a location-based service selection for secure and reliable access for the cloud services in a smart grid. It maintains a list of trustworthy users with di fferent authentication mechanisms. For a registered internal user, it provides role-based access and user access restriction is provided based on their frequency of access. A malicious intruder or an unauthorized user is restricted from accessing the system through various hash-based signature verification mechanisms that ensure that the cloud is secure. Further, the access session duration is limited to prevent the system from being a ffected by flooding attacks. The experimental results show that the proposed model obtains higher performance in terms of high throughput and quality of assurance than other existing methods. The next step to introduce a secure and trusted solution is the requirement that needs to be focused on and to be addressed by the cloud-computing infrastructure.

**Author Contributions:** All authors have involved in this research activities for the final presentation of the work as a comprehensive research current article.

**Funding:** No source of funding for this research activities.

**Conflicts of Interest:** The authors declare no conflict of interest.
