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What Happens When the Power Plant Blackout?

 Electricity is one of the basic needs of human beings in today’s life. Everything from our life is utilized by electrical energy that may be from health to fun and from transportation to traffic. As a result, social and economic influences are inevitable in an interrupted situation.  In normal operating conditions energy production systems enable electricity to reach consumers easily. Energy interruptions can occur due to disturbing currents.  When the power system is defined as a power grid collapse, which is partially or completely out of order, it is the most negative situation for power system operators. Blackout of Electrical Power Grid The electric power grid serves as a bridge between energy production plants and consumers. Energy supply and demand balance problems may occur at any time. These problems cause the voltage and frequency of the power grid to increase or decrease. Through these distortions, the power system is causing the power generation plants to be ...

MQTT | Introduction, Working, Advantages, Implementation in IoT

 IoT is a trending topic for the best part of the last decade or so. It is a network of a number of devices that can communicate with each other and control a bunch of things. The communication part is where MQTT comes into play. It helps in sending/receiving messages between “IoT” devices in a publish – subscribe model. But what is MQTT? How it Works? Why we use MQTT in IoT Projects? We will get answers to all these questions regarding MQTT in this guide. An important note before we proceed further is that this guide is just the theory behind MQTT but not a practical implementation. If you are interested, we can make a few IoT Projects involving MQTT that includes how to setup MQTT. What is MQTT? Internet of Things or IoT is simply a combination of computing devices, sensors, actuators, wireless communication and communication protocols. The goal of IoT is to connect a group of devices (known as ‘things’) to the internet and exchange data between them. Now imagine we have setup an...

What is MTU Size? How to Set it?

 If you are setting up a new internet connection or upgrading to the latest optical fiber connection, then there is very little you need to do in terms of any settings or configuration. Most of the time, you simply plug-in the cable/optical fiber/RJ-45 Cable from your ISP (Internet Service Provider) into respective equipment (Modem/Router) and it just works. But sometimes, very rarely, you might face network speed issues or complete lack of connectivity. In situations like these, the problem will usually be from the ISP side (their server side or equipment) and they will fix it after you complain. Other times, the problem may be due to settings in your router and you have to tweak a little bit with its configuration settings. One such parameter is the MTU Size. But what is MTU? Why do we need to specify its size? We will find answers to all MTU Size related questions in this guide. What is MTU Size? The Maximum Transmission Unit or MTU for short, is the largest data packet size tha...

Wi-Fi Extender vs Booster | When to use Wi-Fi Boosters?

 If you have a cable or fiber internet connection in your home, then chances are you also have a Wi-Fi Router. A Wi-Fi Router allows your devices such as laptops, mobile phones, tablets, TVs etc. to wirelessly connect to the internet. But one problem with almost all Wi-Fi Routers is coverage i.e., you cannot expect strong signals at each and every corner of the house. This is where devices such as Wi-Fi Boosters, Wi-Fi Extenders and Wi-Fi Repeaters come handy. In this guide, we will learn what is the meaning of Wi-Fi Booster and Wi-Fi Extender and how can we compare Wi-Fi Extender vs Booster. What is a Wi-Fi Extender? As the name suggests, a Wi-Fi Extender is a device that extends the range of your existing Wi-Fi Signal to eliminate any dead zones in your home or office. Most modern Wi-Fi extenders work very simply. You just plug-in the Wi-Fi extender into an outlet, turn it on, connect it to the existing Wi-Fi network and et voila. You can now cover all corners of your home with t...

Real-time Ethernet

 In real-time Ethernet technology, there are five main competitors: Ethernet PowerLink, PROFINET, SERCOS III, EtherCAT and Ethernet/IP. The open source real-time communication technology Ethernet POWERLINK is the latest technology to solve the real-time data transmission in the field of industrial control and data acquisition on the standard Ethernet medium. It follows the ISO model. In a sense, POWERLINK is CANopen on Ethernet. The physical layer and data link layer use the Ethernet medium, while the application layer retains the original structure of the SDO and PDO object dictionary. PROFINET is introduced by PROFIBUS International (PROFIBUS International, PI), which is a new generation of automation bus standard based on industrial Ethernet technology. According to its real-time ability, it can be divided into three communication methods: ProfiNet TCP/IP, ProfiNet RT (real-time 5-10ms response time), ProfiNet IRT (synchronous real-time response time less than 1ms). SERCOS III w...