I knew someone would bring up meter-reading. BPL has nothing to do with meter-reading. Most, if not all, of the co-ops in Tennessee have been reading the meters via the connection for years.
A low speed connection is possible across powerlines, always has been. You do not have to bypass a transformer to get a reading off the meter.
well, if there is a cheaper way rather than BPL im sure my craptastic powercompany would be looking into it... right now they still do regular meters and some of the newer areas have the ir meters... but they are looking into bpl or something to that effect to read them...
and im very curious how you would propigate a signal through a tx? please explain
I will do better. Automatic meter reading, that is the name of the systems.
Some of the area water systems also use it. I do not know if the gas suppliers do or not. Anything that is meter read can be done. The connection is less than 1000kbps. It doesnt need to be fast to send a few numbers across the lines from each address.
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