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Design of Power-Line Communication System (PLC) Using a PIC Microcontroller
Q. Al-Zobi, I. Al-Tawil, K. Gharaibeh and I. S. Al-Kofahi

A Power line communication (PLC) system suitable for power meter reading is presented. A PLC transmitter, receiver and interfacing circuit are designed, fabricated and tested. Experimental results of digital data transferred over 220V/50 Hz power lines are presented. The carrier frequency used in this work is 140 kHz.

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