Featuring an complete powerline communication solution on a chip, the CY8CPLC10 includes a powerline modem PHY and powerline network protocol stack using programmable system-on-a-chip architecture.

Street lighting in its many forms—roadway lighting, tunnel lighting, car park lighting, and urban lighting— is a major consumer of electricity. All outdoor lighting is, in fact, estimated to comprise ...

A new standard from the Telecommunications Industry Association defines a data modem that operates on electrical wiring (ac power lines) on users’ premises. The document, TIA-1113, “Medium-Speed (up ...

When you’re hooking up equipment across a vehicle, you’re often stuck sending power and data to and from things like sensors or actuators. The more wires you have to run, the more hassle, so it’s ...

Last week we discussed the delights of power-line networking based on the HomePlug standard. HomePlug nodes can communicate at up to 14M bit/sec. Note that we wrote “can” and “up to” – anything that ...

In powerline communications (PLC), OFDM makes better use of bandwidth than FSK. Fast, reliable, and secure communications are critical for enabling the "energy Internet," an interconnected network of ...

Efforts to use electricity cables to transmit data took a step forward in Europe with the publication of an open specification for power line communications (PLC). The Open PLC European Research ...

Telkonet, Inc. has announced a time and labor-saving addition to its 200 Mbps Telkonet Series 5 powerline communications (PLC) system: the new DIN-Rail mounting adapter. Designed for use with the ...