Our Technology
The Power Line Automation Network (PLAN) architecture is designed from the ground up for secure, reliable, long-range, narrow-band communications. The network offers plug-and-play control and monitoring of lighting, sensors and equipment using existing power lines without the need for any new wired or wireless set up.
Designed and manufactured in the USA, and on top of rigorous G3-PLC international standards, PLAN products are backed by thousands of hours of accelerated testing under real world conditions. The network is versatile, easily implemented, and scalable from a few nodes to a city-wide deployment in stages without any changes to the existing infrastructure.
Network communications can be facilitated in any one or all the three phases of the low voltage side (80 to 480VAC) of the building or city power grid, or with optional LV-LV or MV-LV coupling units to propagate signals for multiple phases (or multiple transformer secondaries) installations.
The Network Gateway acts as the bridge between the power line network and the front end local/remote SCADA, remote/local database or remote http/MQTT push messaging. Each gateway can support up to 2500 end nodes and has the capability to securely communicate via ethernet, or remotely with WIFI, or LTE/CDMA/GSM cellular network.
The Network Node as the core networking module is designed to be used as a part of a customer's application or interface board for sensors, controls, actuators, and lighting loads. Each node can exist on any of the three phases of the low voltage (80–480 VAC) side of the power grid.
The network automatically installs and is self-healing; there is no field installation necessary other than mounting and wiring of the nodes. Each node can be miles out from the nearest node (depending on the number of intermediate power line branches) and maintain network connectivity.
Backed by patented cipher stream encryption on top of industry leading 256-bit elliptic curve cryptographic security, the communication system is highly secure. All messages on the power line networks are fully encrypted with factory configured security keys and certificates.
With broad applications and adaptability, PLAN architecture offers simplicity, security, scalability, and reliability important in smart cities. It is the future of wide area IOT networks on existing power lines.