Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation

Kenta Ito

Tomoaki Yoshida

Hiroaki Katsurai

Takayoshi Tashiro

Haruka Nagoshi

Manabu Kubota

Satoshi Shimazu

Masayoshi Sekiguchi

Shun Morishima

Toshinori Hanano

A power supply side optical communication apparatus supplies power to a power receiving side optical communication apparatus using an optical signal. A power storage unit stores the supplied power. A data control unit superimposes data control information related to transmission/reception of data transmitted/received by a data transmission/reception unit on the optical signal for power supply. A control information detection unit detects the data control information superimposed on the optical signal for power supply. A power supply control unit detects presence of transmission and reception of the data in an optical transmission/reception unit and an external transmission/reception unit on the basis of the data control information and data stored in a data storage unit, and supplies the power to the optical transmission/reception unit or the external transmission/reception unit according to the detected presence or absence of transmission and reception of the data.

Optical power supply system, power receiving side optical communication device and power supply method

A communication apparatus includes a communication unit, a power supply unit, a temperature monitoring unit, and a control unit. The communication unit communicates with an additional apparatus. The power supply unit supplies power to components mounted in the communication apparatus. The temperature monitoring unit monitors a temperature in the communication apparatus to detect presence or absence of a temperature abnormality. In a case where the temperature monitoring unit detects the temperature abnormality, the control unit performs power supply stop processing of stopping the power supply from the power supply unit to at least some of the components. Furthermore, the control unit stops or decreases communication of the communication unit in a case where the temperature monitoring unit detects the temperature abnormality.

Communication apparatus and temperature monitoring method

A power supply side optical communication apparatus supplies power to a power receiving side optical communication apparatus using an optical signal for power supply, a power storage unit stores the supplied power, a data control unit of the power supply side optical communication apparatus superimposes data transmission/reception control information on the optical signal for power supply, a control information detection unit detects the data transmission/reception control information superimposed on the optical signal for power supply, a data transfer control unit calculates a data amount of data to be output to each of an optical transmission/reception unit and an external transmission/reception unit, outputs data equal to or less than a transferable data amount to both or either of the optical transmission/reception unit and the external transmission/reception unit and the external transmission/reception unit, and stores the data exceeding the transferable data amount in the data storage unit.

Optical power supply system, power receiving side optical communication device and data transfer method

A communication apparatus includes a plurality of devices, each of the plurality of devices includes a monitoring unit configured to monitor at least one other device to detect an error that has occurred in the other device, and each of the plurality of devices is monitored by at least one other device.

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