BPL Pilot Scrapped in HawaiiHawaiian Electric will focus on smart monitoring ( old news - 08:32AM Tuesday Jun 12 2007) Tipped by Konaguy  Hawaiian Electric Company has shelved plans to expand their broadband over powerline (BPL) trial. Instead, they will focus solely on the smart network monitoring functionality BPL provides. The majority of utilities haven't been interested in getting into the residential broadband business. Because of that, BPL hardware marketing departments, over the last year or two, have started to push BPL more as a smart networking solution -- with hopes that utilities will change their minds later. Combined with interference concerns, the result has been year after year of lofty promises with very little actual deployment of BPL.
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wwdubbia
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Clinton, NY | Re: YaY !!! Shocking! | |
| moonpuppy
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Glen Burnie, MD | Looks like the promise of BPL....... .......are nothing but shattered dreams. 
Guess it still makes no financial sense to provide broadband service in a competitive environment. | |
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phattieg
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| Re: Looks like the promise of BPL....... If the service had no interference in the ham band, I wouldn't be against it. I don't have a ham license, but I know plenty of operators, and have plenty of encounters with interference from devices that shouldn't generate it. As an example of this being unacceptable anywhere else, imagine if everytime your neighborhood well pump kicked on, all your neighbors, including yourself, lost the ability to watch TV, because the electronic noise from the pump would overpower the audio on all stations. It wouldn't fly with anyone and this is no different. So you're damn right, good riddance BPL Hawaii.
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| Re: Looks like the promise of BPL....... Smart networking is where this technology will land this would be a low bit rate system so it can be narrowly notched and, I would imagine would not be in continuous operation but would be in the form of a signals sent along a grid to interrogate device's such a, transformer, switch's, service box's etc which would give better monitoring of a power grid.
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Glen Burnie, MD
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| I am an amatuer operator and I know all about the interference issue.
Problem is BPL is not the rural answer to broadband even though it was sold partially on that premis. Since DSL and cable already service most of the area, BPL would only grab a small part of the market. | |
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Riverside, CA | Re: Looks like the promise of BPL....... I Hold a General Radotelephone licence (not a ham). Where can I find out more about the interference issue? Also this is in Hawaii, where else can these rural customers get broadband?
I also own stock in Hawaiian Electric.
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Burlington, CT
| said by phattieg :If the service had no interference in the ham band, I wouldn't be against it. This system didn't generate any reported interference in the Amateur bands. It was a Current Technologies (Generation 1) system. Current uses HomePlug modems on the 240-volt wiring to premises and 32-48 MHz on MV distribution lines. The reports ARRL received from Hawaii and from the lager Current systems in Ohio (50,000 homes passed) and Texas (building to 2,000,000 homes passed) show similar results for Amateur Radio.
HECO apparently made this decision on economics. I'm not sure why HECO's economics don't out while TXU is moving ahead, but that is apparently the case.
As amateur operators, we don't have a direct interest in the economics of BPL. Those hams who are also ratepayers in a particular system, or stockholders, do have a stake in the economic component to a BPL system, though.
Ed Hare, ARRL
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| wierdo
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| BPL is just plain wrong.. Someone else called it a nightmare looking for a problem. Perhaps not, but it is certainly a solution looking for a problem. If the electric company owns most or all of their poles, they're better off running fiber.
They already have linemen who can pull it, and they get all the benefits of network monitoring and such. The only real cost is the fiber itself. Since you're not paying for as much in the way of field electronics, it probably comes out a wash, especially with fiber as cheap as it is these days. Fiber gets incredibly expensive when you have to pay somebody to bury it, but when you can have existing employees hang it on poles you already own, it's essentially free to install it as time permits.
The only extra costs are the same costs you'd incur doing BPL. A few people to manage the data side of the business and the cost of a transit provider and a circuit to reach them. | |
| SierraRob
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| Geez... With warm weather, warm water, blue skies, and great snorkeling all around, why the heck are Hawaiians wasting their time on the Internet anyway??
*sigh* missing Kona already...
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