About Us
The Purpose of the Association
Promote Powerline Communication technologies and the benefits brought by these technologies for all the relevant applications.
Publish specifications and make them available to standard making bodies
Work to harmonize standards and regulations globally so as to achieve a level-playing field for the deployment of Powerline Communication technologies and products, based on approved international standards.
Aim at federating and unifying all related initiatives.
Educate decision makers, government, and industry and society leaders on the place to be taken by the Powerline Communication technologies in the race to build an equitable, inclusive and global communication society.
Provide a forum to strengthen international cooperation so as to nurture and grow the emerging new PLC market.
The Universal Powerline Association invites all interested companies and organizations to join and contribute to the promotion of PLC and development of the global PLC standards and regulations.
Background
The UPA was founded on the common belief of a set of leading companies who shared the vision of a PLC landscape based on:
- World-wide standards for power line communications;
- Integrating PLC into the telecommunications landscape
- Providing consistent, credible and unifying communication on PLC;
- Taking a universal view of the market and embracing all applications whether access, in-home, multimedia or other PLC application;
- Ensuring speed of deployment of PLC worldwide.
An interest group for the UPA was established by the founding members in May 2004. A Memorandum of Understanding was signed by the founding members in September 2004, and the UPA was officially announced in January 2005.
