Capabilities and Visions of Broadband Power-Line in Smart Grids Applications

Sláčik, Ján; Mlýnek, Petr; Fujdiak, Radek; Musil, Petr; Vozňák, Miroslav; Orgon, Milos; Hlavnicka, Jan

doi:10.1109/epe.2019.8777935

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“…The distance that the BPL signal must travel is one of the most important parameters that will affect the resulting communication. According to simulation and real measurements, BPL communication can be expected in tens of Mbps up to a distance of 600 m [26,33,34] for underground MV power lines. The distances between distribution transformer stations (DTS) are mostly in the range of tens of meters to the higher hundreds of meters for power grids in the Czech Republic.…”

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Cable Monitoring Using Broadband Power Line Communication

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Power line communication (PLC) is considered one of the possible communication technologies for applications in the field of smart metering, smart substations, smart homes, and recently for the management of renewable resources or micro grid control. This article deals with the use of PLC technology to determine the technical condition of the cable. This coefficient can help distribution system operators (DSO) to assess the condition of their cable routes. In this way, possible cable breakdowns and subsequent power outages can be prevented. The resulting methodology for calculating the coefficient is presented in two specific examples of routes, in which a significant benefit for DSO’s can be found.

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Section: Distance Between Bpl Modems/cable Lengthmentioning

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Cable Monitoring Using Broadband Power Line Communication

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“…The paper also shows the throughput of LV BPLC modems on the topology using the iperf tool [ 65 ]. Works that focus on measuring throughput of BPLC systems in the real field are [ 8 , 66 ]. These papers describe the testing methodology in detail and describe the conditions of the measured topology, such as SNR values.…”

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Broadband Power Line Communication for Integration of Energy Sensors within a Smart City Ecosystem

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The popularity of the Power Line Communication (PLC) system has decreased due to significant deficiencies in the technology itself, even though new wire installation is not required. In particular, regarding the request for high-speed throughput to fulfill smart-grid requirements, Broadband Power Line (BPLC) can be considered. This paper approaches PLC technology as an object of simulation experimentation in the Broadband Power Line Communication (BPLC) area. Several experimental measurements in a real environment are also given. This paper demonstrates these experimental simulation results as potential mechanisms for creating a complex simulation tool for various PLC technologies focusing on communication with end devices such as sensors and meters. The aim is to demonstrate the potential and limits of BPLC technology for implementation in Smart Grids or Smart Metering applications.

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“…The number of repeaters does affect the balancing speed; however, in our simulations only bottleneck with 300 kb/s was significantly affected. It caused the balancing to take less time with delays 100 and 200 s. The reason why significant differences occurred only with the bottleneck value of 300 kb/s was most likely that bottlenecks 100 and 200 kb/s are extremely low values in comparison to the generation of data from both streams, which was 1000 kb/s (bottleneck 100-300 kb/s was considered from real-case scenarios obtained from our measurements [22,63,64,67]). Simulations discovered that when considering the implementation of PLC into the network in different locations, it is not necessary to take into consideration the influence of repeaters if there is a bottleneck link with lower throughput than around 30% of the stream data generation speed or of the link throughput between other nodes.…”

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“…Based on the literature review covered in this section, we found that there are no pertinent articles presenting differences between common methods of powerline communication simulations and real results of devices deployed on power lines under the load. With our experiences, with performance evaluation of networks based on PLC and mutual cooperation with electric utilities in the Czech Republic [22,[63][64][65][66][67], we mainly focus on correlating simulations and real measurements with consequent outcomes. Our goal is to enhance knowledge in terms of determining the necessity of repeater usage in PLC network design.…”

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Simulation-Based Evaluation of the Performance of Broadband over Power Lines with Multiple Repeaters in Linear Topology of Distribution Substations

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Broadband over Power Lines (BPL) is considered a promising communication technology in the concept of Smart Grids. This paper evaluates networks based on BPL, with a focus on the impact of repeaters in the linear topology of distribution substations. In large-scale Smart Grids network planning, positions of repeaters have to be carefully chosen. This article should help to determine such positions and limitations of BPL linear topology networks. Laboratory and on-field measurements and their results are presented in this article. Results show the impact of repeater’s deployment for different testing methodologies also with regard to other already presented studies. Measured values and the determined impacts of repeaters are later used as input data for simulation of the linear BPL topology in terms of network throughput with multiple streams and bottlenecks. These occur especially on lines shared by multiple communicating nodes. Furthermore, the simulation investigates the balancing time of multiple data streams throughput. The simulation shows that the throughput balancing can occupy a significant time slot, up to tens of seconds before the throughput of different streams balances. Also, the more data is generated, the more time the balancing time takes. Additionally, the throughput drop caused by a repeater is determined into the range of 35–60%. Based on the measurement and simulation results, lessons learned are presented, and possible performance improvements are discussed.

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Capabilities and Visions of Broadband Power-Line in Smart Grids Applications

Cited by 8 publications

References 20 publications

Cable Monitoring Using Broadband Power Line Communication

Cable Monitoring Using Broadband Power Line Communication

Broadband Power Line Communication for Integration of Energy Sensors within a Smart City Ecosystem

Simulation-Based Evaluation of the Performance of Broadband over Power Lines with Multiple Repeaters in Linear Topology of Distribution Substations

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