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| Help me with this please. Lets pretend that I'm an executive looking to introduce BPL technology in the UK.
There are a number of important differences between the UK utilities market and the market in the USA.
The UK energy industry is largely deregulated and competitive.
The distribution companies(own pipes and wires) are heavily regulated but the retail market is competitive and perhaps more importantly so is the metering/energy services market.
The UK electricity network has on average 150-200 premises fed from each transformer.
We also have telecommunications Local Loop Unbundling (LLU), which means that private licenced telecoms companies can put their own equipment into telephone exchanges and "adopt" the national carrier (BT) telephone lines.
The utilities companies can be persuaded to install "BPL junction boxes" where we will insert the telecoms signal into the medium voltage (MV) line below the transformer and will automatically light up every electric socket in those 150-200 premises with high-speed broadband.
Another important development that feeds into this are the likelihood that the UK utilities market is going to mandate "smart meters" for all energy end-points and will therefore need communications to and from every meter.
The distribution companies have for some time now been replacing the earth wires on their network with a cable that contains a 24/48 core fibre cable for back-haul.
We intend implementing a IEEE P1901 standards based solution that uses OFDM with automatic interference detection and notching.
We see our solution as being the catalyst for helping to change the energy industry from a pure commodity based market with very poor levels of usage data, into a value-added energy services industry that provides real-time information on the actual energy being used at the time it is used. This will allow policy makers, companies and end-users to adjust their behaviour in order to impact on peak usage and climate change issues.
As a responsible corporate executive I want to establish the benefits of this technology in such a way that I don't adversely impact the current users of the radio spectrum to any great extent but if the law and the regulators allow, I'm going to make this work.
What do I need to do to ensure that we co-exist with the radio hams? | | |
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