About ISPLC

The 20th IEEE International Symposium on Power Line Communications and its Applications will be held in Bottrop, Germany, from March 20 to March 23, 2016 . ISPLC is the flagship conference of the IEEE Communications Society Technical Committee on Power Line Communications, and has been financially and technically sponsored by the IEEE Communications Society since 2006.
 

Bottrop is a city in west central Germany, on the Rhine‐Herne Canal, in North Rhine‐Westphalia. Located in the Ruhr industrial area, Bottrop adjoins Essen (12 km), Oberhausen (13 km), and Schalke 04 (13 km).
 

ISPLC 2016 will bring together high industry participation, academia, researchers and users of power line technologies to present and discuss state of the art solutions and research results on existing and future power line communication systems. The IEEE ISPLC 2016 will focus on key aspects of communications theory, algorithms, standards, measurements, implementations, evaluation of field trials and network operation pertaining to communication via power line.

ISPLC has been a successful conference for 20 years, and it is recognized as the major international conference in the PLC field. ISPLC 2016 will have the participation of utilities (telecom, electric, water, and gas), regulatory agencies (energy and telecom), governmental institutions, R&D institutes, universities, manufactures, technology and solution providers, integrators.