Communicating with someone thousands of miles away is now just a few keystrokes away, thanks to the internet and other forms of communication. Modern communication leverages a variety of wired and ...

PLC (power line communication) is a communication method that uses a power line as the communication medium. A system can be built economically and quickly by using an electric supply network as a ...

Power line communication (PLC) semiconductor devices transform the electricity grid into a smart grid by turning it into a communications network connecting utilities to their customers and making ...

Whatever the type of modulation used, a PLC transceiver includes a few basic blocks. Different solutions use various levels of integration of these components, from full-digital modems with external ...

Fig 1. Semitech’s SM2200, a power-line communications packet-data modem transceiver, uses OFDMA to achieve up to 175-kbit/s data rates on low and medium power lines. Fig 2. OFDM simply splits one fast ...