Ambient Energy Harvesting: The Potential of Additive Noise in Urban and Rural Medium-Voltage Electric Power Networks

Victor Fernandes, Thiago Oliveira, Thiago Nogueira, Moises Vidal Ribeiro

DOI: 10.14209/sbrt.2019.1570557222

Evento: XXXVII Simpósio Brasileiro de Telecomunicações e Processamento de Sinais (SBrT2019)

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Abstract

This paper deals with the medium-voltage (MV) power line communication (PLC) in the context of energy harvesting. To do so, a measurement campaign was carried out in urban and rural environments of Curitiba city, Brazil. This measurement campaign estimated the MV-PLC additive noise in these electric power networks. Numerical results show that the power spectrum density and the mean power, for distinct RF-to-DC conversion factors, in the urban environment is higher than in the rural one. Also, the achievable data rate analysis over the MV electric power networks show the usefulness of this additive noise for feeding low-bit-rate devices.

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