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What is Data Communication

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Optimizing and Measuring Smart Grid Operation and Control
Data transmission (also data communication or digital communications) is the transfer of data (a digital bitstream or a digitized analog signal over a point-to-point or point-to-multipoint communication channel. Examples of such channels are copper wires, optical fibers, wireless communication channels, storage media and computer buses. The data are represented as an electromagnetic signal, such as an electrical voltage, radiowave, microwave, or infrared signal.
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Data and Communication Infrastructure in Smart Grids: State of the Art and Trends
Abdelmadjid Recioui (Université M'hamed Bougara de Boumerdes, Algeria) and Youcef Grainat (Université M'hamed Bougara de Boumerdes, Algeria)
Copyright: © 2021 |Pages: 28
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-4027-5.ch001
Abstract
The communication infrastructure constitutes the key element in smart grids. There have been great advances to enhance the way data is communicated among the different smart grid applications. The aim of this chapter is to present the data communication part of the smart grid with some pioneering developments in this topic. A succinct review of the state of art projects to improve the communication link is presented. An illustrative simulation using LABVIEW is included with a proposed idea of introducing some newly technologies involved in the current and future generations of wireless communication systems.
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