Power Line Communication Systems for Smart Grids

Power line communications enable electric power system components to use the very power lines for communication about voltage, frequency, generation and loads. This work covers the technology systematically. This second edition offers updates and new content on noise types, mitigation, and properties of power line channels. Power Line Communication (PLC) is a technology allowing for the transmission of data through electrical wires. A key advantage of PLC is its low cost of deployment when the electrical wiring infrastructure already exists. PLC has recently received growing attention and significant investments within the development of the Smart Grids (SG). Their bidirectional structure including integrated communication networks for real time monitoring, control and automatic intervention capability require cost-efficient and robust data exchange and communication.

This book presents the fundamentals and principles of the technologies behind narrowband and broadband PLC technologies and covers coding techniques, energy monitoring, control and management, particularly with intermittent renewable energies, and main standards.

The second edition offers updates to the chapters, and new chapters, e.g. on noise types and mitigation, and use of PLC with EV.

Ivan Roberto Santana Casella (S'01-M'04-SM'19) is a full professor at the Center for Engineering, Modeling and Applied Social Sciences (CECS) of the Federal University of ABC (UFABC), Brazil, and founder and director of the Information and Communication Laboratories (LIC I and LIC II). He holds a master's degree and doctorate in Electrical Engineering from the Polytechnic School of the University of São Paulo (USP), with a doctoral internship at the Wireless Communication Laboratory at the department of electrical and computer engineering (ECE) of the University of Toronto (UofT). He is a senior member of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering), associate editor of the Electronics Letters of the IET (Institute of Engineering and Technology) and author of several articles in telecommunications and smart grid areas, which have resulted in some academic and scientific awards. He is also the author of several book chapters and books including Power Line Communication Systems for Smart Grids (2019) with IET and Smart Grids Renewable Energy, Power Electronics, Signal Processing and Communication Systems Applications (2024) with Springer. His main areas of interest are wireless communications, power line communications, smart grids, planar antennas design and energy harvesting.

Alagan Anpalagan (S'98-M'01-SM'04) is a full professor at the Department of Electrical, Computer and Biomedical Engineering (ECBE) of the Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU), Canada, and director of the Wireless Networks and Communications Research (WINCORE) Laboratory. He received the B.A.Sc., M.A.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Toronto (UofT). Alagan served as editor for the IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials and IEEE Communications Letters and co-edited the Handbook on Green Information and Communication Systems, Academic Press (2012), Routing in Opportunistic Networks, Springer (2013), Design and Deployment of Small Cell Networks, Cambridge University Press (2015). His main areas of research are radio resource management, green communication, energy harvesting, small cell and heterogeneous networks, cognitive and cooperative communication, smart grid and smart homes.