An Innovative Approach for the
Management of Cross-Coupling Interference in Street Lighting Networks 1Kore
University of Enna, Enna, Italy 2University
of Catania, Catania, Italy riccardo.caponetto@dieei.unict.it Abstract Power Line Communications (PLCs) are used for
measuring various metrics, that can give signs about the health of the power
grid equipment and for maintenance actions. These measurements may include
the values of voltage, current, temperature and pressure of the power grid
equipment. As it is known, the communication may also depend on the structure
of the transmission medium, i.e. the parasitic capacitances and inductances
and the cross-coupling interference between phases. This paper introduces an
innovative solution with the aim to reduce the impact of noise and
interferences in street light systems based on PLCs for telemetry. The
proposed solution can cope with several problems, such as the capacitive and
the inductive coupling among phases and attenuation. The goal of the solution
introduced in this work is to make the communication, among master and slave
nodes, reliable and immune to noise. The proposed solution also allows a
significant reduction of power consumption with a consequent lowering of CO2
emissions, acting on the automatically dimming and switching off the street
lamps. Keywords: Street
Lighting System, Power Line Communication, Power Consumption Reduction, +: Corresponding author: Giovanni Pau Journal of Wireless
Mobile Networks, Ubiquitous Computing, and Dependable Applications (JoWUA) Vol. 8, No. 2,
pp. 44-63, June 2017 [pdf] |