An application of the broadband PLC for smart homes in Turkey

Author

Hasirci, Zeynep ; Cavdar, Ismail Hakki ; Suljanovic, Nermin ; Mujcic, Aljo

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Karadeniz Tech. Univ., Trabzon, Turkey

fYear

2013

fDate

2-4 July 2013

Firstpage

222

Lastpage

226

Abstract

This paper describes the PLC broadband channel application for home automation in Turkey. Firstly, the necessity of information and communication technologies (ICT) for smart grid is discussed and channel models for LV power lines-especially transmission line based models are explained. For application step, a typical house which has five rooms is selected. Then, the potential loads are located. In addition, all cable types and cable lengths are selected according to the real home wiring application in Turkey. Then, the PLC channel behavior is observed with the help of FTW simulator in fixed and random mode.

Keywords

broadband networks; building wiring; carrier transmission on power lines; home automation; network topology; smart power grids; FTW simulator; ICT; LV power lines; PLC broadband channel application; PLC channel behavior; Turkey; cable lengths; cable types; channel models; home automation; information and communication technologies; potential loads; real home wiring application; smart grid; transmission line based models; Broadband communication; Impedance; Load modeling; Network topology; Smart grids; Transfer functions; Wiring; Channel Transfer Function; FTW simulator; LV-PLC; Network Topology; Smart grid;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Telecommunications and Signal Processing (TSP), 2013 36th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Rome

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-0402-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/TSP.2013.6613924

Filename

6613924