Study of monitoring system using power line communications
In an effort to remain competitive in the IT world, improvements in communication are essential in ensuring timely data transmission from one party to another. PLC is a rapidly evolving market that utilizes electricity power lines for the high-speed transmission of data and voice services. With t...
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| Format: | Final Year Project |
| Language: | English |
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2011
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10356/45925 |
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| Institution: | Nanyang Technological University |
| Language: | English |
| Summary: | In an effort to remain competitive in the IT world, improvements in communication are
essential in ensuring timely data transmission from one party to another. PLC is a rapidly
evolving market that utilizes electricity power lines for the high-speed transmission of data
and voice services. With the advancements of technology, it is increasingly popular that
Power Line Communications (PLC) is readily suitable to be incorporated in any
infrastructures. PLC works on the principle of the transmission of data over power lines in
ensuring that efficiency is well met. As power lines are almost ubiquitous, PLC is potentially
the network with the deepest capillarity in the world. The advantages of PLC surpassed the
disadvantages thus making it potentially an omnipotent network access technology.
The objectives of the study are to implement PLC into the various feasible applications, to
show the effects in improving the efficiency and effectiveness of communication and the
creation of the platform of PLC into various platforms or devices. The application of PLC in
this study has been applied into the field of hydroponics. The working principle is to seek to
deploy a monitoring control system using power line network in the hydroponics lab. In order
to optimise plant growth, it is prudent that conditions in the greenhouse need to be constantly
checked and equipment adjustments have to be made to ensure good plant growth resulting in
better yield.
Model construction which requires programming codes using Microsoft Visual C# have been
developed for sensor attached on the MiniGizmo board. This program is used in the
transferral of data from the MiniEVK.
Nevertheless, limitations and problems towards the implementation of PLC were mentioned
and recommendations were proposed. |
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