Projects
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| Reference Number | NIA_WPD_050 | |
| Title | LTE| Connecting Futures | |
| Status | Completed | |
| Energy Categories | Other Power and Storage Technologies(Electricity transmission and distribution) 100%; | |
| Research Types | Applied Research and Development 100% | |
| Science and Technology Fields | ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY (Electrical and Electronic Engineering) 100% | |
| UKERC Cross Cutting Characterisation | Not Cross-cutting 100% | |
| Principal Investigator |
Project Contact No email address given Western Power Distribution |
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| Award Type | Network Innovation Allowance | |
| Funding Source | Ofgem | |
| Start Date | 01 January 2020 | |
| End Date | 01 July 2021 | |
| Duration | ENA months | |
| Total Grant Value | £1,151,654 | |
| Industrial Sectors | Power | |
| Region | South West | |
| Programme | Network Innovation Allowance | |
| Investigators | Principal Investigator | Project Contact , Western Power Distribution (100.000%) |
| Industrial Collaborator | Project Contact , Western Power Distribution (0.000%) |
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| Web Site | https://smarter.energynetworks.org/projects/NIA_WPD_050 |
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| Objectives | A full scale LTE network consists of many, many base stations and a number of Evolved Packet Cores (EPCs). A base station consists of a number of sector antennas which cumulatively contributes to a 360 degree service area surrounding the site, typically between three and six sectors per base station. Each sector represents a cell attached to the base station and Customer Premises Equipment (CPEs) will connect to a particular cell on a particular base station, depending on radio characteristics.The trial will consist of the minimum number of three base stations and sectors (cells) needed to fulfil a basic LTE network which will allow for an evaluation of the system characteristics. Therefore it is intended to install a three sector (cell) base station at Taunton and two single sector (cell) base stations at Elworthy Burrows and Bowdens Hill. The single sector (cell) base stations will face towards the Taunton base station to represent a typical LTE configuration. All three base stations will be connected back to the EPC which will be installed in Taunton. This project will be the UKs first multi-site, multi-vendor LTE trial designed to mimic on a small scale, and develop proposals for, the roll-out of a telecommunications network to support Active Management functionality. This is an important follow up to the a single vendor; single base station LTE evaluation trial at Portishead which provided data on the fundamental design and capabilities of LTE and illustrated how such a communications network might be integrated into WPD infrastructure. This showed that an LTE network is better equipped than a traditional narrow-band Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) network in the harsh environment [e.g. electrically noisy sites, RF interference, multipath etc. | |
| Abstract | Following on from an initial trial of an LTE system at Portishead which was wholly funded by WPD, it is now proposed to carry out further trials of an LTE network, this time using multiple vendors rather than a single vendor and carrying various types of data over this network. This trial would be carried out in the test bed facilities in Taunton, and on live sites in the Taunton area. | |
| Publications | (none) |
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| Final Report | (none) |
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| Added to Database | 02/11/22 | |
