High-speed narrowband PLC in Smart Grid landscape &amp;#x2014; State-of-the-art

Haidine, Abdelfatteh; Adebisi, Bamidele; Treytl, Albert; Pille, Hans; Honary, Bahram; Portnoy, Alexander

doi:10.1109/isplc.2011.5764443

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“…In [15], the authors discussed communication network requirements common to such systems and presented transmission concepts for PLC to make use of the existing power transmission and/or distribution infrastructure resources (i.e., power lines) to meet these requirements. In [16] the authors give an overview of DLC+VIT4IP (Distribution Line Carrier: Verification, Integration and Test of PLC Technologies and IP Communication for Utilities), a EU funded project under the 7th Framework Programme (FP7) that aims to extend the existing PLC technologies by developing efficient transport of IPv6 protocol, automatic measurement, configuration and management, and security. In addition, the project DLC+VIT4IP also exploits frequency ranges up to 500 kHz, to support systems serving larger smart grid applications.…”

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A Survey on Smart Grid Communication Infrastructures: Motivations, Requirements and Challenges

Yan

Qian

Sharif

et al. 2013

IEEE Commun. Surv. Tutorials

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Abstract-A communication infrastructure is an essential part to the success of the emerging smart grid. A scalable and pervasive communication infrastructure is crucial in both construction and operation of a smart grid. In this paper, we present the background and motivation of communication infrastructures in smart grid systems. We also summarize major requirements that smart grid communications must meet. From the experience of several industrial trials on smart grid with communication infrastructures, we expect that the traditional carbon fuel based power plants can cooperate with emerging distributed renewable energy such as wind, solar, etc, to reduce the carbon fuel consumption and consequent green house gas such as carbon dioxide emission. The consumers can minimize their expense on energy by adjusting their intelligent home appliance operations to avoid the peak hours and utilize the renewable energy instead. We further explore the challenges for a communication infrastructure as the part of a complex smart grid system. Since a smart grid system might have over millions of consumers and devices, the demand of its reliability and security is extremely critical. Through a communication infrastructure, a smart grid can improve power reliability and quality to eliminate electricity blackout. Security is a challenging issue since the on-going smart grid systems facing increasing vulnerabilities as more and more automation, remote monitoring/controlling and supervision entities are interconnected.Index Terms-Smart grid, communication infrastructure, intelligent network, interconnected power system, monitoring, sensing, cyber security I. BACKGROUND S MART grid is a term referring to the next generation power grid in which the electricity distribution and management is upgraded by incorporating advanced two-way communications and pervasive computing capabilities for improved control, efficiency, reliability and safety. A smart grid delivers electricity between suppliers and consumers using two-way digital technologies. It controls intelligent appliances at consumers' home or building to save energy, reduce cost and increase reliability, efficiency and transparency [1]. A smart grid is expected to be a modernization of the legacy electricity network. It provides monitoring, protecting and optimizing automatically to operation of the interconnected elements. It covers from traditional central generator and/or emerging renewal distributed generator through transmission network and distribution system to industrial consumer and/or home users with their thermostats, electric vehicles, intelligent appliances [2]. A smart grid is characterized by the bidirectional connection of electricity and information flows to create an automated, widely distributed delivery network. It incorporates the legacy electricity grid the benefits of modern communications to deliver real-time information and enable the near-instantaneous balance of supply and demand management [3]. Many technologies to be adopted by smart grid have alread...

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A Survey on Smart Grid Communication Infrastructures: Motivations, Requirements and Challenges

Yan

Qian

Sharif

et al. 2013

IEEE Commun. Surv. Tutorials

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“…DC PLC technology, which utilizes the dc power line as an alternative communication channel, is considered as a viable communication method in distribution power systems. Due to its reliable and low-cost advantages [15] This article has been accepted for publication in a future issue of this journal, but has not been fully edited. Content may change prior to final publication.…”

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“…DC PLC technology, which utilizes the dc power line as an alternative communication channel, is considered as a viable communication method in distribution power systems. Due to its reliable and low-cost advantages [15], dc PLC has become an attractive solution for PV monitoring [16]- [21]. In [16], a low-cost low-frequency PLC for PV monitoring was developed, using baseband transmission and direct spread code division multiple access (DS-CDMA).…”

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Embedding Power Line Communication in Photovoltaic Optimizer by Modulating Data in Power Control Loop

Zhu

Wang

et al. 2019

IEEE Trans. Ind. Electron.

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I. INTRODUCTIONHOTOVOLTAIC (PV) generation has been one of the most popular renewable energy technologies in the world. Conventionally, dozens of panels are series-connected to increase the output voltage, and then feeds to a grid-tied inverter. The output currents of all panels are equal due to the series connection. However, the current generation of PV panel is dependent on solar intensity and its condition. If some panels generate less current than the string current due to partial shading, the unshaded panels have to lower their output current to match with the shaded ones. Consequently, the unshaded panels will not work at their maximum power point (MPP), which leads to a waste of power [1]. Such problem can also be Manuscript received February 4, 2018; revised April 24, 2018; accepted May 4, 2018. This work is sponsored by the National Nature Science Foundation of China under Grants 51577170, National Key Technologies R&D Program of China No. 2017YFE0112400, and the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 734796.Y. Zhu, J. Wu, R. Wang and X. He are with the College of Electrical Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou; 310027, China. (e-mail: y_zhu@foxmail.com; eewjd@zju.edu.cn; rui_chi@163.com;hxn@zju.edu.cn).Z. Lin is with the Department of Electrical, Electronic and Power Engineering, Aston University, Birmingham, B4 7ET, U.K. (email: z.lin@ieee.org).induced by manufacture difference, nonuniform aging, etc.To mitigate the aforementioned problem, dc-dc power optimizer (DCPO), which is a dc-dc converter with input connected to the PV panel and output connected to other DCPOs in series, has been proposed and widely studied [1]- [9]. By equipping each PV panel with a DCPO, the panel can work independently at its MPP, thus distributed maximum power point tracking can be achieved.In [1]-[4], different topologies of DCPO have been compared and analyzed. Buck, boost, buck-boost, etc., are candidate topologies for DCPO. Buck and boost converters are the most efficient and low-cost topologies [2][3], while buck is only suited for long string and boost is for short strings. Buck-boost, cuk and sepic converters are flexible in voltage ranges but always at an efficiency and alternatively cost shortcoming [1][2] [4]. In [5]- [7], modeling of a single DCPO and of a PV string equipped with DCPOs have been studied in detail, which is very helpful for system designing. In [8], a novel maximum power point tracking (MPPT) technique based on DCPO is proposed, which shows the effectiveness of DCPO in panel MPPT. [9] proposes an intelligent PV module concept based on DCPO and PLC, and it shows great potentials of DCPO in intelligent PV system development.In a PV system equipped with DCPOs, PV status monitoring, intelligent control algorithm, and outage management can be implemented only if communication links among DCPOs are provided. Due to the cost-sensitive characteristic of PV system, low-cost communication method is preferred. For conventional PV status monitoring s...

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“…These features have all contributed to the relevant presence of NB-PLC in European Advanced Metering Infrastructures (AMI) deployments [11]. However, NB-PLC presents some drawbacks, mainly related to its performance dependency on the channel conditions [12]. In any case, it is expected that future improvements of the technology will lead to increased levels of performance and robustness [13].…”

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“…Ensuring the security of SGs is key for their success, which also involves ensuring availability, confidentiality, integrity, and authentication [8]. As described in [12], it is possible to establish three types of secure associations between the application level and the PLC equipment. The choice of the most appropriate criterion will depend not only on the features of the final application but also on the communication protocols used.…”

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Smart Grid Applications for a Practical Implementation of IP over Narrowband Power Line Communications

Uribe-Pérez¹,

Angulo

Vega

et al. 2017

Energies

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Currently, Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) systems have equipped the low voltage section with a communication system that is being used mainly for metering purposes, but it can be further employed for additional applications related to the Smart Grid (SG) concept. This paper explores the potential applications beyond metering of the available channel in a Power Line Communication-based AMI system. To that end, IP has been implemented over Narrow Band-Power Line Communication (NB-PLC) in a real microgrid, which includes an AMI system. A thorough review of potential applications for the SG that might be implemented for this representative case is included in order to provide a realistic analysis of the potentiality of NB-PLC beyond smart metering. The results demonstrate that existing AMI systems based on NB-PLC have the capacity to implement additional applications such as remote commands or status signals, which entails an added value for deployed AMI systems.

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High-speed narrowband PLC in Smart Grid landscape — State-of-the-art

Cited by 46 publications

References 5 publications

A Survey on Smart Grid Communication Infrastructures: Motivations, Requirements and Challenges

A Survey on Smart Grid Communication Infrastructures: Motivations, Requirements and Challenges

Embedding Power Line Communication in Photovoltaic Optimizer by Modulating Data in Power Control Loop

Smart Grid Applications for a Practical Implementation of IP over Narrowband Power Line Communications

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