A Case Study: Broadband Over Powerline for Rural Area Deployment in Sarawak

Use of Quality Function Deployment for Gold Mining Feasibility Study (Case Study: Designing Explosive Storage Area)

In the mining industry, at the beginning of development of a project, a consultant is assigned to build a design feasibility study to incorporate the client requirement, government regulation, and other inputs into the design. The consultant usually faces overwhelmed stages due to changes caused by the client and other stakeholders and has to repeat the process of inputting requirements into th...

A Roadmap for Rural Area ICT Solution Deployment: A Case of Kgautswane Community in South Africa

The need to introduce technologies in rural areas so as to capacitate communities towards overcoming various socio-economic challenges remains a priority in emerging economies. We rely on the foregoing for the investigation in the Kgautswane community in South Africa, of a range of socio-economic challenges that can be addressed through ICT. Identified challenges are further filtered for the se...

Broadband PowerLine Communications: Performance Analysis

Power line channel is proposed as an alternative for broadband data transmission especially in developing countries like Tanzania [1]. However the channel is affected by stochastic attenuation and deep notches which can lead to the limitation of channel capacity and achievable data rate. Various studies have characterized the channel without giving exactly the maximum performance and limitation...

Broadband Powerline Communications Networks Network Design

Modelling of Broadband Powerline Communication Channels

This paper develops a new PLC model and investigates the impact of the load, line length, and diameter of the transmission line on the channel transfer function over the frequency range of 120 MHz. The results show that with 42 degrees of freedom, the proposed model leads to an average RMSE value of approximately 5.2 dB. With the same conditions, the Phillips model leads to an average RMSE valu...