COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, POWER SUPPLY CONTROL METHOD, AND POWER SUPPLY CONTROL NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM

• US 20160173290A1
• Filed: 02/04/2014
• Published: 06/16/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 05/23/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: YAMADA, Shiego
• Application Number:
  US14/892,814
• Publication Number:
  US 20160173290A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 13/00004 characterised by the power network being locally controlled
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 13/00007 using the power network as support for the transmission
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 13/00017 using optical fiber
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 2300/24 of photovoltaic origin
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 2300/28 The renewable source being wind energy
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 2310/12 The local stationary network supplying a household or a building
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 3/007 Arrangements for selectively connecting the load or loads to one or several among a plurality of power lines or power sources for providing uninterruptable power supply H02J9/00
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 3/381 Dispersed generators
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/80 involving the exchange of data, concerning supply or distribution of electric power, between transmitting devices and receiving devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 3/54 Systems for transmission via power distribution lines
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/10 Current supply arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 10/56 Power conversion systems, e.g. maximum power point trackers
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 10/76 Power conversion electric or electronic aspects
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 40/70 Smart grids as climate change mitigation technology in the energy generation sector
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 60/00 Enabling technologies; Technologies with a potential or indirect contribution to GHG emissions mitigation
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 10/123 the energy generation units being or involving renewable energy sources
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 40/121 using the power network as support for the transmission
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 40/124 using wired telecommunication networks or data transmission busses

Abstract

A communication system including power supplies for operating, for example, an indoor communication apparatus and an outdoor communication apparatus connected to each other by a communication line, the power supplies being provided in the indoor communication apparatus and the outdoor communication apparatus, respectively, and capable of transmitting power from each power supply to a counterpart communication apparatus via a communication line is provided. The communication system includes the indoor communication apparatus and the outdoor communication apparatus connected to each other via a communication line that exchanges a signal.

Claims

1. A communication system comprising a first communication apparatus and a second communication apparatus that are connected to each other via a communication line that exchanges a signal, wherein:

each of the first communication apparatus and the second communication apparatus is connected to a first power supply, which is a power supply included therein or an external power supply located nearby and includes a power transmission mechanism that superimposes power on the signal in the communication line and transmits the power that is superimposed to a counterpart communication apparatus via the communication line as a second power supply, and

the first communication apparatus and the second communication apparatus select one of the power from the first power supply and the power from the second power supply transmitted from the counterpart communication apparatus via the communication line as an operating power supply according to a state of the power in each of the first power supply and the second power supply and are supplied with the power that has been selected.

2. The communication system according to claim 1, wherein each of the first communication apparatus and the second communication apparatus transmits, by the power transmission mechanism, when the amount of power from the first power supply of one communication apparatus has reached the level where one communication apparatus and the counterpart communication apparatus can be concurrently operated, the power from the first power supply of one communication apparatus to the counterpart communication apparatus as the second power supply via the communication line in such a way that the power is superimposed on the signal and further selects the power from the first power supply of one communication apparatus as the operating power supply and is supplied with the power that has been selected, or when the power has been transmitted from the counterpart communication apparatus as the second power supply via the communication line, selects one of the power from the first power supply of one communication apparatus and the power transmitted from the counterpart communication apparatus as the second power supply via the communication line as the operating power supply in a predetermined order and is supplied with the power that has been selected.

3. The communication system according to claim 1, wherein each of the first communication apparatus and the second communication apparatus selects, when the amount of power supplied from the first power supply of one communication apparatus has reached the level where only one communication apparatus can be operated although it is not sufficient to concurrently operate both one communication apparatus and the counterpart communication apparatus, the power from the first power supply of one communication apparatus as the operating power supply and is supplied with the power that has been selected.

4. The communication system according to claim 1, wherein each of the first communication apparatus and the second communication apparatus selects, when the amount of power supplied from the first power supply has reached the level where only one communication apparatus can be operated although it is not sufficient to concurrently operate one communication apparatus and the counterpart communication apparatus in one communication apparatus and the amount of power from the first power supply has reached the level where both one communication apparatus and the counterpart communication apparatus can be concurrently operated in the counterpart communication apparatus, the power transmitted from the counterpart communication apparatus as the second power supply via the communication line as the operating power supply and is supplied with the power that has been selected.

5. The communication system according to claim 1, wherein each of the first communication apparatus and the second communication apparatus selects, when the amount of power supplied from the first power supply of one communication apparatus has been decreased to the level where even only one communication apparatus can no longer be operated, the power transmitted from the counterpart communication apparatus as the second power supply via the communication line as the operating power supply and is supplied with the power that has been selected.

6. The communication system according to claim 1, wherein when the amount of power supplied from the first power supply in a communication apparatus that is predetermined as a specific communication apparatus from the first communication apparatus and the second communication apparatus has reached the level where both one communication apparatus and the counterpart communication apparatus can be concurrently operated, the counterpart communication apparatus selects, regardless of the amount of power from the first power supply in one communication apparatus, the power that has been transmitted from the specific counterpart communication apparatus via the communication line as the second power supply as the operating power supply and is supplied with the power that has been selected.

7. The communication system according to claim 1, wherein the communication apparatus that is predetermined as the specific communication apparatus from the first communication apparatus and the second communication apparatus includes an operation switch, and the communication system sends a signal to stop the operation of the communication function of the counterpart communication apparatus and to cancel the stop of the operation of the communication function of the counterpart communication apparatus via the communication line by an operation of the operation switch.

8. The communication system according to claim 1, wherein the first communication apparatus is an indoor communication apparatus that is installed indoors and the second communication apparatus is an outdoor communication apparatus that is installed outdoors.

9. A power supply control method in a communication system comprising a first communication apparatus and a second communication apparatus that are connected to each other via a communication line that exchanges a signal, wherein:

each of the first communication apparatus and the second communication apparatus is connected to a first power supply, which is a power supply included therein or an external power supply located nearby, superimposes power on the signal in the communication line, and transmits the power that is superimposed to a counterpart communication apparatus via the communication line as a second power supply, and

the first communication apparatus and the second communication apparatus select one of the power from the first power supply and the power transmitted from the counterpart communication apparatus via the communication line as an operating power supply according to a state of the power in each of the first power supply and the second power supply and are supplied with the power that has been selected.

10. A power supply control non-transitory computer readable medium that executes the power supply control method according to claim 9 as a non-transitory computer readable medium that can be executed by a computer.