Transcript BPL Standards Parsing - IEEE-SA

BPL Standards Parsing
Points of discussion from
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Division into Specialties
Expertise of Power Engineering Society
• Coupling device safety standards
• Suggested installation guidelines
• Protection of low voltage devices
Expertise of Communications Society
• Frequency allocation recommendations
• Co-existence of networks
• Interoperability of networks
WG’s should be set up to study
detailed proposals
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Safety Standards
• Adoption of sections of existing
standards, e.g. insulators, surge
withstand levels
• Compatibility with existing
lineman practice at utilities
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Frequency Allocations
• Access vs In-House
– Spectrum sharing, co-existence
– Medium Voltage = Backbone (should get
lion’s share of data rate capacity)
– In-House as sub-network of Access
• Work at ETSI
– Should frequencies be pre-assigned to
Access and In-House?
– Evidence of counter-intuitive frequency
usage
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