Project outline

Achievable signal integrity and transmission data rates in a wireless communication link are directly related to the communication channel and to the disturbances it experiences.

Indeed, a high voltage environment, like an electrical substation, is exposed to many perturbations and various sources of electromagnetic pollution. Although some of those are well known (corona effect, switching …), others remain to be identified and characterized. The ultimate project goal, posterior to this project, consists in characterizing each noise source and its impact on channel variability in order to produce a generic channel propagation model.

To achieve this goal, this project aims at 1) reviewing research having already been conducted on characterization of electromagnetic propagation in high voltage environments, and 2) complement this work by laboratory and outdoor electromagnetic fields and noise measurements. The development of a test cell for equipment characterization in high voltage environments presenting radio perturbations is also essential to ease repeatability of tests and environmental variations.

Results to date

• Literature review focusing on communication environments in a high voltage context
• Model development and spectral analysis of high voltage environments
• also see Publications

Expected results

• Development of a wireless communications equipment test cell emulating high voltage environments phenomena
  

Our partners

• Institut de recherche d’Hydro-Québec, IREQ – Expertise Systèmes de Mesure & d’Information
• MITACS
• FQRNT

Team members

Professor: François Gagnon, Ammar B. Kouki
Specialist: Laurent Mouysset
Students: Fabien Sacuto, Minh Au
IREQ Team: Basile L. Agba, Jean Béland, Hugo Bertrand, Sylvain Riendeau

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