Power Line Communication Analyzer is a simple and interactive PC and Smart Phone application for Field and Laboratory Testing of PL 3120/ PL 3150 based products to determine the operations and suitability of Echelon’s Power Line Technology (based on ISO 14908 Standard) for the applications such as Smart Metering, Street lighting, Solar, Home Area Networks and many other Commercial and Industrial applications.

Features

• Measures signal strength
• Measures error rate
• Measures signal to noise ratio
• Identify the faulty (noise generating) device
• Identify the current phase
• Describes the status of current power-line environment

Verification Use Cases

• Unintentional output noise generated by any device
• Determine the background noise and margin level for a given location or between two locations
• Excessive loading produced by 3rd party device
• Transmit performance of Lontalk based end device
• Receive performance of Lontalk based end device

PLA Usage

There are two possible user classifications:

1. Field Testing For Product Installers

A simple mode of PLA determines and provides a feedback to a user – suitability for adding power line communicating device at a given location and helps determine offending device on the power line network.

2. Lab Testing For Engineers

As a test equipment, engineer can use for testing and verification of newly developed PL based device.

PLA User Interface

1. Electrical

• Input Voltage Range : 90 to 277 VAC +/- 10% - Single phase
• Input Frequency : 50 or 60Hz
• Power Line Communication Frequency : 110kHz to 138kHz for C-band

2. Processor

• Microprocessor Neuron : 3120 Chip
• Processor : ARM Cortex-A7 Dual Core CPUI+ Mali400MP2 GPU
• DC Voltage : 5V, 12V
• AP6210 : WIFI BT two-in-one module

3. Mechanical

• Power Plug : US/European
• Dimensions : (5.6” x 6.594” x 6.594”) excluding case handle
• IP Rating : IP65

4. Technical

• Power Supply Type : Internal 100-120/240 VAC switching supply
• Transceiver Bit Rate : 5.5kbps (C-band mode)
• Transmission Technique : BPSK 110kHz-140kHz (C-band mode)
• Nominal Line Input Voltages : 100-120/240VAC/li>
• Line Input Voltage Tolerance : +6, -10%
• Output Voltage : 1.7v to 10vp-p
• Operating Altitude : 4572m (15,000 feet) Max
• Non-operating Altitude : 7620m (25,000 feet) Max
• Pollution Degree : 2
• Operating Temperature : 0^o to +70^o C
• Non-operating Temperature : -20^o to +65^o C
• Operating Humidity (non-condensing) : 25 to 90% RH @ +40^o C
• Non-operating Humidity (non-condensing) : 90% RH @ +60^o C
• Approvals/Qualification : NO