Secure and reliable wide-area power-line communication for soft-real-time applications within REMPLI

The REMPLI project aims at designing and implementing a communication infrastructure for distributed data acquisition and remote control operation using the power grid as the communication medium. Aside of being a platform for automated meter reading with high time resolution, energy management and domotic applications, and the system provides status information about the power grid and its components, thus improving maintenance quality. In this paper we give an overview about the features and abilities of the REMPLI system, we show the system architecture, and we analyze the position of REMPLI in the market of power-line communication systems.