TAUPE PROJECT - Transmission in Aircraft on Unique Path wirEs - FAQ

About the TAUPE project

Q. What is the TAUPE project?

TAUPE stands for Transmission in Aircraft on Unique Path wirEs. This is a European Aeronautic Research project. TAUPE is also a collaborative project since it involves 16 partners (industrials, SMEs, academics and research centres) from 6 different countries (France, Germany, Spain, Switzerland, Netherlands, Romania).

The objective of the project is to simplify the electrical architectures of the aircrafts and to reduce the length and the mass of the cables installed by introducing PLC (PowerLine Communication) or PoD (Power over Data) technologies inside the aircraft.

Q. What is the PLC (PowerLine Communication) technology?

PowerLine Communication is a technology that consists in transmitting data on power cables. This technology already exists at home and a PLC network can easily be created by plugging 2 or more standard PLC modules on your electrical installation.

More technically speaking, it consists in modulating/demodulating the “high frequency” signal, the data, on a “low frequency” signal, the power.

Q. What is the PoD (Power over Data) technology?

Power over Data is a technology that consists in transmitting power on data cables. As for the PLC, this technology already exists: for instance some phones are only plugged by one Ethernet cable. The data and the power are provided onto the same cable which is a data cable in this case.

Q. What is the ACARE SRA?

ACARE stands for Advisory Council for Aeronautics Research in Europe. This group of about 40 members aims at establishing and carrying forward a Strategic Research Agenda (SRA) that will influence all European stakeholders in the planning of research programmes, particularly national and EU programmes, in line with the Vision 2020 European report.