A Low Complexity Multicarrier Proposal for Medium Rate Demanding Automatic Meter Reading Systems

Author

Aquilué, Ricard ; Deumal, Marc ; Pijoan, Joan Lluís ; Corbeira, Laura

Author_Institution

Ramon Llull Univ., Barcelona

fYear

2007

fDate

26-28 March 2007

Firstpage

11

Lastpage

16

Abstract

In automatic meter reading (AMR) technology, electrical utilities (EUs) have been exploiting their own infrastructure to bill their customers in an efficient and economical way using power line communications (PLC) technologies. Since the amount of data that has to be send is quite low related to the available time to perform this task, AMR applications have been demanding low bit rates. At this moment, EUs are exploring and demanding other services as load and alarm management, remote monitoring and disconnections, etc. In this context, the low voltage PLC modems should provide more throughput while keeping the cost of the hardware low. In this paper, a low complexity multicarrier modulation is proposed in order to exploit the CENELEC A band.

Keywords

automatic meter reading; carrier transmission on power lines; modems; modulation; automatic meter reading system; electrical utility; low complexity multicarrier modulation; medium rate demand; power line communication modem; Automatic meter reading; Bit rate; Communications technology; Load management; Power generation economics; Power line communications; Power system economics; Programmable control; Proposals; Remote monitoring;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power Line Communications and Its Applications, 2007. ISPLC '07. IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Pisa

Print_ISBN

1-4244-1090-8

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-1090-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISPLC.2007.371090

Filename

4231664