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. [...]
Andrea Tonello interviewed by Katharina Tischler-Banfield for ad astra Power Line Communication (PLC) uses electricity cables to transmit data. Andrea M. Tonello, professor at the [...]
Universities that offer study programs in telecommunication engineering are experiencing a reduced number of students despite the fact that telecommunications is a pillar in modern economy. The [...]
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 [...]
The Embedded Communication Systems Group gathered together on 11 July 2007 and spent a full day in Bodental, Carinthia. It has been a fantastic day meant to create a relaxed atmosphere and [...]
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 [...]
Power line communication (PLC) is the technology that exploits existing power lines to convey data signals. It’s an old but brilliant idea that can help saving telecommunication [...]
“I have been sharing my thoughts in a recent conference where I was invited to speak about education in the field of telecommunications engineering“, prof. Tonello says. “I [...]
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 [...]