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Item Demo Abstract: Performance of the Latest Generation Powerline Networking for Green Building Applications(ACM New York, 2013-11-11) Taylor, Joseph; Roy, Nirmalya; Kleinschmidt, David; Shirazi, BehroozGreen building applications need to efficiently communicate fine-grained power consumption patterns of a wide variety of consumer-grade appliances for an effective adaptation and percolation of demand response models down to the consumer level appliances. A key inhibitor to the widespread adoption of such demand response policies at the consumer grade appliances level for intelligent building energy management, is the inability of smart plugs/sensors to efficiently communicate and control the power consumption. However since they already connected with the power grid, a natural question arises, whether the power consumption telemetry can be communicated over existing mains wiring. The use of existing wiring produces a simple and cost-effective attractive solution, and avoids many issues observed with wireless mesh networks, such as islands and bottlenecks and helps vacate the increasing congested spectrum. In this paper we explore the feasibility and efficacy of Powerline Communications (PLC) as a backbone of wireless communications in a home environment, both for high-bandwidth and low-bandwidth intensive applications. In this demo we show several state-of-the-art PLC modems' behavior using end-to-end measurements and their performance, throughput and noise characteristics.Item Performance of the Latest Generation Powerline Networking for Green Building Applications(ACM New York, 2013-11-11) Roy, Nirmalya; Kleinschmidt, David; Taylor, Joseph; Shirazi, BehroozGreen building applications need to efficiently communicate fine-grained power consumption patterns of a wide variety of consumer-grade appliances for an effective adaptation and percolation of demand response models in the home environment. A key hurdle to the widespread adoption of such demand response policies in these appliances is the lack of efficient connectivity to a local area network. One solution is delivering telemetry data over existing electrical infrastructure to which the devices are already connected. The use of existing wiring produces a simple and cost-effective solution, avoiding many issues observed with wireless mesh networks (such as islands and bottlenecks), while helping to vacate increasingly congested spectrum. In this paper we explore the feasibility and efficacy of Powerline Communications (PLC) as a backbone of wireless communications in a home environment. We evaluate the behavior of several state-of-the art PLC modems using end-to-end measurements to establish their performance and throughput characteristics. Our preliminary results suggest that PLC is a promising technology for low-Bandwidth hungry green building applications but more in depth study is required before making large-scale smart grid deployment.