HD-PLC Alliance, an organization comprised of voluntary groups dedicated to promoting the use of fast power line communication (PLC) technology worldwide, has announced that the company’s IEEE 1901 HD-PLC chipsets have been certified as compliant with the new CENELEC EN50561-1 electromagnetic compatibility standard. According to Michimasa Aramaki, President and Chairman of the HD-PLC Alliance, though compliance with the new standard is required within three years, the company will implement it in its products immediately, “liberating the market of the uncertainties of CE marking and bringing a permanent solution to interference problems.”
The HD-PLC chipsets utilizes a cognitive dynamic frequency exclusion mechanism to protect the reception of radio broadcast services and a dynamic power control mechanism to minimize potential disturbances to other systems. Director of new technology planning at the HD-PLC Alliance Stephan Horvath theorizes that the new standard will help boost the development and implementation of integrated broadband PLC technology into mass market products.
