A solution to remote detection of illegal electricity usage via power line communications

IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1663-1667

  Cavdar, I Hakki ^a  

^a KARADENIZ TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROL SYSTEM SYNTHESIS; DATA RECORDING; DETECTORS; ELECTRIC INDUSTRY; ELECTRIC POWER DISTRIBUTION; ELECTRIC POWER UTILIZATION; MODEMS; RECORDING INSTRUMENTS; SIGNAL DETECTION; TELEMETERING; TELEMETERING SYSTEMS;

AUTOMATIC METER READING (AMR); DETECTOR SYSTEM; ILLEGAL ELECTRICITY USAGE; POWER LINE COMMUNICATIONS (PLC); POWER LINE COMMUNICATIONS MODEM; REMOTE DETECTION;

CARRIER TRANSMISSION ON POWER LINES;

EID: 7244242326     PISSN: 08858977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPWRD.2003.822540     Document Type: Article

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