A Heterogeneous PLC with BLE Mesh network for Reliable and Real-time Smart Cargo Monitoring

Vijay, R and Prabhakar, TV and Hegde, V and Rao, VS and Prasad, RV (2019) A Heterogeneous PLC with BLE Mesh network for Reliable and Real-time Smart Cargo Monitoring. In: 23rd IEEE International Symposium on Power Line Communications and its Applications, ISPLC 2019, 3 April 2019through 5 April 2019, Prague, pp. 72-77.

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Abstract

Electronic Freight Security (EFS) systems are being increasingly deployed to reliably monitor the cargo in real-time and prevent theft in air cargo. As the existing technologies fall short in achieving these goals due to cost of deployment and/or higher latencies, we propose to exploit the existing infrastructure of power lines when the aircraft is on the tarmac. We propose an architecture that extends power line communications with Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) devices that are embedded on the cargo. We show that BLE mesh can extend the range by interfacing with PLC modems to achieve an IoT solution for continuous monitoring and tracking. In order to evaluate this, we also propose a novel software-defined radio based testbed that can be used to evaluate various scenarios. The novelty of our testbed includes BLE mesh network that supports high reliability and low latency communication and support for emulation of electrical loads to inject impulse noise into the powerline network. We then measure end-to-end latencies and packet delivery ratios in realistic settings for the smart cargo monitoring solution. Our results indicate that our hybrid network offers a worst case latency of 24.85ms for a 570 m distance between warehouse and cargo monitoring station.

Item Type:	Conference Paper
Publication:	Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE International Symposium on Power Line Communications and its Applications, ISPLC 2019
Publisher:	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Additional Information:	The copyright for this article belongs to Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Keywords:	Carrier transmission on power lines; Electric power measurement; Impulse noise; Mesh generation; Programmable logic controllers; Real time systems; Software radio; Testbeds, Bluetooth low energies (BLE); Cargo monitoring; Low-latency communication; Mesh; Packet delivery ratio; Power line communications; Software-defined radios; USRP, Internet of things
Department/Centre:	Division of Electrical Sciences > Electronic Systems Engineering (Formerly Centre for Electronic Design & Technology)
Date Deposited:	30 Nov 2022 10:06
Last Modified:	30 Nov 2022 10:06
URI:	https://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/78397

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