
Hotel Story PLC Networks
The hotel proposes to the customers to connect to the Internet in their bedrooms via
a lent PLC device to be connected to the bedroom outlets. This connection to the
Internet must take place in an authenticated, secured, and confidential manner. The
PLC devices available at the hotel reception are, therefore, preconfigured so that
they can connect to the PLC story network.
The technical problem raised is that HomePlug 1.0 and Turbo specify a limit of
15 devices for each PLC network behind a PLC gateway. Figure 11.15 illustrates the
drawing of a story with more than 15 PLC devices that are potentially connectable
to the hotel bedrooms corporate network with 22 bedrooms. The PLC signal is fed
either by injection from the circuit breaker panel of the building or by pulling an
Ethernet cable at each story and including a PLC gateway for each story if the dis-
tance is too high.
By using AsokaUSA 8950 products, PLC network extensions beyond the 15
device limit can be added with the creation of “segments,” i.e., PLC areas with 15
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Figure 11.14 Overall logical architecture of the hotel PLC networks
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