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

fYear

2014

fDate

March 30 2014-April 2 2014

Firstpage

244

Lastpage

248

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power Line Communications and its Applications (ISPLC), 2014 18th IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Glasgow

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISPLC.2014.6812362

Filename

6812362