Poweline Communication, possible in India?

Hello,

I am a newbie to this forum. I am working on a project, where I have
been asked to check feasibility of using powerline communication for
doing something similar to home automation. I am from India, and we
have 220VAC/50Hz electric power supplied. I would like to know if
there are some devices that can work in this range (X10/UPB).

I dont seem to find any discussion on this issue. Would someone kindly
advice me how to go about using PLCC? Its very interesting indeed.
Also if there are some pointers given as to how PLCC works, and if
there is a possibility of developing my own circuits for the same, I
would be grateful.

Thanks in anticipation,
Raja

On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 02:22:35 -0700 (PDT), in comp.arch.embedded mvr
<> wrote:

>Hello,
>
>I am a newbie to this forum. I am working on a project, where I have
>been asked to check feasibility of using powerline communication for
>doing something similar to home automation. I am from India, and we
>have 220VAC/50Hz electric power supplied. I would like to know if
>there are some devices that can work in this range (X10/UPB).
>
>I dont seem to find any discussion on this issue. Would someone kindly
>advice me how to go about using PLCC? Its very interesting indeed.
>Also if there are some pointers given as to how PLCC works, and if
>there is a possibility of developing my own circuits for the same, I
>would be grateful.
>
>Thanks in anticipation,
>Raja
You havent said what data rate and distance you require, but have a
look at the TDA5051 datasheet from NXP, it may help you.


martin

Hi Raja!

> I am from India, and we
> have 220VAC/50Hz electric power supplied. I would like to know if
> there are some devices that can work in this range (X10/UPB).

In Europe we have 230V/50Hz with +6%/-10% (was 220V/50Hz +/-10% before). So
I think there should be enough devices around supporting that voltage
range.

The main problem IMO is noise; If there is a big factory around your
location causing peak demands or any other sort of noise that would be
problematic.
Some Filtering may be required for the whole circuit.

regards

--
Bernhard Schauer
schauer_at_cruxy_dot_net

Thanks a lot for your responses on the PLCC query.
Appreciate it very much,

Regards,