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Here's everything you want to know about PLC technology, theory, applications, and installation organized for you in the first definitive English-language book on the subject. You get a solid theoretical grounding on this emerging alternative to Wi-Fi and Ethernet together with best-practice examples of PLC deployments and down-to-business procedures to install PLC in the home, design large-scale PLC networks for businesses and communities, and choose the right technology and equipment for any application. A state-of-the-art reference, how-to guide, and problem-solver wrapped up in one complete source, this benchmark work brings you quickly up to speed on PLC network architecture, functionalities, security issues, and applications. You get details on PLC modems, transformers, and other equipment along with PLC installation and configuration guidelines that cover everything from choosing the topology for a PLC network to configuring parameters under Windows or Linux/BSD. The book spells out steps to install PLC in homes followed by design and configuration procedures for PLC business networks that cover all issues involving network architecture, standard and equipment selection, security, and other essentials. The book also explores the development of community-wide PLC networks and the emergence of hybrid PLC-Ethernet-Wi-Fi applications. Supported by real-world examples and 280 illustrations, this hands-on resource takes you to the cutting edge of power line communications and helps you tap its rich potential moving forward.

Electric lines --- Telecommunication lines. --- Communication transmission lines --- Lines, Telecommunication --- Transmission lines --- Telecommunication --- Carrier transmission on electric lines --- Electric power systems --- Electric relays --- Telemeter --- Telephone, Carrier current --- Carrier transmission. --- Equipment and supplies --- Communication systems --- Programmeerbare logische sturingen ; Powerline communication.

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Telecommunication --- Electric lines --- Power electronics --- Electricity --- Power lines --- Power transmission lines --- Powerlines --- Transmission lines --- Electric power distribution --- Electric cables --- Electric power transmission --- Carrier transmission --- Distribution

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This book covers planning and maintenance of digital power line carrier (DPLC) channels along high voltage 35-750 kV alternate current power lines, providing readers with an introduction to the relevant industry standards, structure, and construction of DPLC equipment. Coverage includes DPLC equipment use in digital transmitting systems, including digital modulation and coding, channel equalization, and echo cancelling; DPLC multiplexing systems and network elements; different characteristics of high voltage power lines as media for high frequency PLC signals transmission; and planning of DPLC channels. Practicing engineers and researchers involved in the development, design, and application of high voltage power line carrier channels, as well as students studying communications and electric power grids, will find this book to be a valuable reference guide. The only modern single source guide dedicated to high voltage DPLC channels, technologies, and equipment; Offers comprehensive coverage of DPLC system structure and parameters; Looks at operation of DPLC channels at various scenarios and conditions – ice crusting, temperature, tapping lines, double-circuit lines, cable junctions.

Energy systems. --- Power electronics. --- Electrical engineering. --- Energy Systems. --- Power Electronics, Electrical Machines and Networks. --- Communications Engineering, Networks. --- Electric engineering --- Engineering --- Electronics, Power --- Electric power --- Electronics --- Electric lines --- Carrier transmission. --- Carrier transmission on electric lines --- Electric power systems --- Electric relays --- Telemeter --- Telephone, Carrier current --- Communication systems