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The idea of processing and dispatching units of electrical energy has been around since some time and rhetorically referred to as Internet of energy, Energy of internet, Packet energy, Bit [...]

Radio access networks are moving towards the small-cell based paradigm, where the macro-cell base stations are aided by additional ones with small coverage but high traffic capabilities. This is [...]

An extremely relevant task is to grant safety, reliability and uninterrupted availability of transmission and distribution power grids. In one word, maintenance is  fundamental in power grids.  [...]

    This post is an excerpt from an article appeared in ESI Africa magazine. With the use of ubiquitous PLC, reduced deployment time and costs as well as increased maintenance planning are [...]

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are used in numerous industrial and commercial applications that include aerial photography, agricultural and environmental surveillance, parcel delivery. UAVs can [...]

In many engineering applications, physical systems are controlled by a set of external inputs and their behavior is monitored by the system states. The system states may not be measured or [...]

State-of-the-art power line communications (PLC) channel models follow either a bottom-up or a top-down strategy. The forner uses transmission line theory and it captures the physics of [...]

Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) aspects in the context of Power Line Communication (PLC) systems are of great importance. In the paper “EMC Regulations and Spectral Constraints for [...]

“Can we derive the topology of a wireline grid and more in particular of a smart grid ? This is the question that I asked to myself”, prof. Tonello says. Why is the topology knowledge [...]

“While physical layer security (PLS) is a well understood topic in wireless communications, we have only recently addressed PLS in PLC. The PLC channel has very peculiar characteristics that [...]