A Study of Power Line Communication-based Smart Outlet System Expandable at Home

Abstract

Unprecedented attention is being given to Smart Grid, Micro Grid and Internet of Things (IoT) in the Republic of Korea recently but such systems' effect is not well experienced by the market since they require additional and costly reforms for the existing household electrical system where adaptive communication platforms are needed. As such platforms, both wireless and wire communication technologies are being considered at the moment. Usually, they include WiFi, Zigbee technologies and the latter, LAN technology. However, communication speed decline due to signal attenuation and interference during wireless communications are considered to be the major problem and the extra works involving time and costs for the LAN system construction can be another demerit. Therefore, in this paper, we have introduced a Power Line Communication-based Smart Outlet System Expandable at Home to complement these disadvantages. Proposed IoT system involves Power Line Communication (PLC) technology which is essential to constructing a Smart Grid.

An Efficient Solitary Senior Citizens Care Algorithm and Application: Considering Emotional Care for Big Data Collection

“…A framework based on Internet of Things (IoT) and Power Line Communication (PLC) technologies that can provide an efficient way of monitoring the changes in the power usage of a solitary senior citizen is introduced in this study. Some of the research findings from the author's previous studies [8][9][10] were considered when constructing the framework and the test bed, which was established based on the scenarios developed for the three layers of seven-layer OSI (Figure 1) where the scope of the test bed experiment was described ( Figure 1). (PLC) technologies that can provide an efficient way of monitoring the changes in the power usage of a solitary senior citizen is introduced in this study.…”