OPERACOPRAS Brussels October 14th 2004

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OPERA-COPRASBrussels October 14th 2004

• Possible Collaborations

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Project Scope (I)Objectives

• OPERA Project is a four years project (divided in
  two phases of 24 months, the actual phase covers
  two years up to December 2005)
• Where the main actors in PLC area are
  participating
• To offer low-cost broadband access service to ALL
  European citizens using the most ubiquitous
  infrastructure, Power Lines
• By means improving standardising the PLC
  Technology in order to reduce costs and to be
  able to use it as a broadband technology in a
  massive deployment.

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Project Scope (II)What is PLC?

• PLC (Power Line Communications) is a
  telecommunication technology that allows to take
  profit of the existing electrical grid for high
  quality and broadband data transmission .
• This means that in each domestic electrical
  socket, the customer has availability, in
  addition to the electrical energy, of
• Broad Band Internet Services
• Telephone connection
• Advanced services of Video and High definition TV
  (on test)
• All these services are available without having
  additional connections, antennas or new cables in
  house.
• An additional advantage for the Power
  Distribution Company is the avoidance of the
  last mile installation, the cable routings, and
  the ditches across our streets.

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Project Scope (III)Participants
Developers and
Utilities
Universities
Manufactures




EDF (France)
Open University


(England)
ENDESA (Spain)


ADD (Spain)





Swiss Federal Institute

ENEL Distribuzione/WIND (Italy)



Dimat (Spain)

of Technology


IBERDROLA (Spain)



Schneider Electric Powerline Communications (Fran
ce)
(Switzerland)



LinzAG Strom (Austria)



University of Dresden


MVV (Germany)
(Germany)



Eichhoff (Germany)





Unión
Fenosa (Spain)
University of
Duisburg-



Elsys Design (France)

Essen (Germany)




Mitsubishi (Japan)
University of
Karlsruhe


(Germany)

Robotiker (Spain)
Technology Providers




University
of

Telvent (Spain)

Thessaloniki (Greece)


University
Politécnica



Ascom (Switzerland)
Madrid (Spain)
Engineering and


DS2 (Spain)


University of
Comillas
Consultancy Companies


(Spain)

Itran (Israel)

Main.net (Israel)

Telecom Operators




Eutelis Italia (
Italy)



Enditel (Spain)
Other Organisations





Auna (
Spain)

Iberdrola
Ingeniería
y


Consultoría (Spain)

ONI (Portugal)




Inesc / Nov (Portugal)





PLCForum
PPC (Germany)
Association
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Technologies, specifications, other outputs that
are intended to be European or global standards
or may contribute to standardisation work

• Our Project have into its objectives to contibute
  to the Standardisation of PLC sys-tems for the
  following issues
• Functional requirements topologies of PLC
  networks and system requirements (performance,
  QoS, network management, electric safety
  specifications, dimensions, target cost).
• Access system specification PHY layer, MAC
  layer, coexistence indoor-access, MIB for NMS,
  PLC network/services interfaces.
• PLC equipment specification specification of
  requirements of PLC equipment.
• EMC there are only standard compliance at
  national level and the objective is European
  level.
• Interface with narrow band PLC System.
• Those specifications will be taken to
  standardisation bodies and will be the basis for
  the manufacture of (standard) new generation PLC
  systems to be used in the deployment.

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Specific WPs addressing activities required to
interface with standards bodies

• Workpackage 5 Specification standardisation
• Objectives
• To specify the requirements of the new PLC
  Integrated Network that will be the reference for
  the work of all workpackages.
• To drive the PLC standardisation in the competent
  organisations.
• Budget 170 Man/months (both for Specifying and
  Addressing)

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Coordinating standardisation related activity
with other IST projects

• Up to this moment, our only process to
  coordinating standardisation related activity
  with other IST projects either in FP6 or other
  Framework Programmes is the present one
• COPRAS

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Coordination with standards bodies/industry
consortia, concerned activity involved
organisations

• Standards body or industry consortium Forecasted
  Contacts
• CENELEC SC205A working Group 10 on PLC
  standardisation
• Work Group WG3 of the committee CISPR/I (EMC of
  Information technology equipment, multimedia
  equipment and receivers) which are developing a
  standard on product EMC

• Activities Involved Workpackage 5
• Our deliverable D59 consists in the Deliverables
  updating to transform them to proposal documents
  (final drafts) for the standardisation bodies.
• The Contacts have not started yet. Our Proposal
  documents for the standardisation bodies will be
  released at month 24 (End of 2005), as stated in
  our milestones.

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Standardisation Issues Addressing Specific Areas
(I)

• Expected results that may concern
  standardization issues.
• Specification of requirements of PLC System.
• Specification of requirements of PLC Equipment.
• PLC EMC aspects measurements, disturbance
  voltage, radiation, immunity, approval testing
• PLC de facto standard.
• Proposal documents for the standardisation bodies

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Standardisation Issues Addressing Specific Areas
(II)

• Detailed Tech. Spec. and Standards related
  Outputs (Deliverables)
• D45 Specification of PLC system requirements.
• D46 General specification of PLC PHY layer
• D47 General specification of PLC MAC layer
• D48 Specification of common MIB for all PLC
  equipment.
• D49 Solutions for coexistence between Access and
  Indoor systems
• D50 Specification of standard interfaces.
• D51 Specification of requirements of PLC
  equipment
• Access network PLC equipment
• Customer premises equipment
• Users terminals
• D52 Specification for EMC measurements to be
  performed.
• D53 Report on disturbance voltage measurement
  method.
• D56 Specifications for PLC type approval testing.
• D57 Specification of interfaces between home
  automation and PLC and between AMR and PLC
  systems.
• D58 Report on the progress of PLC
  standardisation.
• D59 Deliverables update to transform them to
  proposal documents (final drafts) for the
  standardisation bodies.