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A New Low Cost Coupling System for Power Line Communication on Medium Voltage Smart Grids
Giovanni Artale,Antonio Cataliotti,Valentina Cosentino,Dario Di Cara,Riccardo Fiorelli,Salvatore Guaiana,Giovanni Tine +6 more
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The performance of an innovative and low cost coupling system for power line communication (PLC) on medium voltage (MV) smart grids that makes use of the capacitive divider of the voltage detecting systems (VDSs) to inject and receive the PLC signal.Abstract:
This paper proposes and verifies the performance of an innovative and low cost coupling system for power line communication (PLC) on medium voltage (MV) smart grids. The coupling system makes use of the capacitive divider of the voltage detecting systems (VDSs) to inject and receive the PLC signal. VDS are usually already installed in the MV switchboards of the major electrical manufacturer all over the world according to IEC 61243–5. VDS are used to detect the presence of the mains voltage to guarantee personnel safety. An interface circuit has been developed to be connected between the PLC transceiver and the VDS socket. In this way, the PLC signal can be coupled to the MV network without installing a dedicated MV coupler, thus avoiding the related costs of the coupler, the installation, and the temporary service interruption. The innovative device is able to couple digitally modulated narrowband PLC signals with modulation rate up to 19.2 kbit/s. In this paper, first a description of the proposed solution is reported. Second, its communication performance has been tested in laboratory. Finally, different tests have been carried out in two MV smart grid real installations under normal operation, i.e., in the presence of the mains voltage.read more
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