Title :
Experimental investigation of broadband power line communication modems for onshore oil & gas industry: A preliminary analysis
Author :
Castor, Leonardo R. M. ; Natale, Ricardo ; Silva, Jair A. L. ; Segatto, Marcelo E. V.
Author_Institution :
Tecnol. da Informacao e Telecomun.-PETROBRAS, Vitoria, Brazil
fDate :
March 30 2014-April 2 2014
Abstract :
A field trial of power line communication (PLC) with 200 Mpbs modems in a low voltage test grid is presented in this paper. Throughput and adaptivity to physical channel characteristics are some of the investigated functionalities in order to evaluate their appliance in medium voltage (MV) levels for onshore oil & gas industries. Experimental results obtained from a 180 m low voltage (LV) test network reveal the modems ability to achieve the measured high bit rates.
Keywords :
broadband networks; carrier transmission on power lines; modems; natural gas technology; offshore installations; petroleum industry; power grids; PLC; broadband power line communication modems; low voltage test grid; low voltage test network; medium voltage levels; onshore gas industry; onshore oil industry; physical channel characteristics; Area measurement; Logic gates; Modems; Monitoring; OFDM; Power line communications (PLC); channel adaptivity; low and medium voltage levels;
Conference_Titel :
Power Line Communications and its Applications (ISPLC), 2014 18th IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Glasgow
DOI :
10.1109/ISPLC.2014.6812362
