Paper Info
Title
Proposal For A Power Line Communication Network Using Gas Pipelines As Channel And Nodes Supply
Abstract
Data communication is crucial in monitoring and control applications. Several standards and technologies have been developed for the data exchange among the devices (e.g. smart meters, sensors) included in a communication network, exploiting either wired or wireless infrastructures. The choice of the communication technology depends on several factors, like the required data transfer rate, the cost of infrastructure installation, reliability and security. In the last decades, wireless technologies spread thanks to their lower installation costs, higher flexibility and mobility respect to the wired infrastructures that suffer the need of expensive cables deployment, making sometimes the installation not affordable. For this reason, the Power Line Communication (PLC) gained attention being based on the reuse of the existing power grid infrastructure for the data transmission, removing the costs related to the infrastructure installation. A similar approach is proposed in this paper, in which the use of the gas pipelines as communication channel for the data transmission has been investigated. The purpose of the work is to allow the data exchange in a cathodic protection (CP) monitoring system for a gas pipeline network, using the pipeline itself as communication channel, avoiding the need of a separated data transmission infrastructure. The proposed nodes are powered by the cathodic voltage of the pipe.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1109/IECON43393.2020.9254568
IECON 2020: THE 46TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE IEEE INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS SOCIETY
Keywords
DocType
ISSN
Power Line Communication, cathodic protection, gas pipeline, smart metering, monitoring, harvesting
Conference
1553-572X
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Domenico Di Caro100.34
Vincenzo Paciello211222.97