Case Studies
Distributed Acoustic Sensing Applications: Five Field Cases, From Pipeline Tunnels to Roads
Distributed acoustic sensing applications from this week: a pipeline tunnel in Mexico, road upkeep in Japan, quakes on dark fiber, and where…
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Technology
Events
Subsea Cable Monitoring: DAS Covers 600 km of HVDC Cable While Mexico Signs a New Line to Cozumel
Subsea cable monitoring with DAS now spans 600 km of HVDC cable and locates anchor strikes within 68 m. What that means…
Case Studies
Fiber Optic Tailings Dam Monitoring Moves From Pilot to Practice
Fiber optic tailings dam monitoring is leaving the lab, with a Chile pilot and a fast growing sensor market showing why mining…
Case Studies
Fiber Sensing Service on Existing Telecom Fiber: What ITU-T G.681 Changes
A fiber sensing service turns idle telecom fiber into a sensor network. See what ITU-T G.681 allows, what DAS can measure and…
Case Studies
Fiber Cut Detection: How Existing Fiber Can Hear the Excavator Before the Cut
Fiber cut detection on fiber you already own: how distributed acoustic sensing hears excavation and tampering before the cut that grounded five…
Industry
Fiber Optic Earthquake Detection: What Chile Proved and What Mexico Still Lacks
Fiber optic earthquake detection runs on Chile's Cable Prat and has peer-reviewed results in California. What it measures, its limits, and Mexico's…
Technology
Dark Fiber Sensing: Turning Cable You Already Own Into Sensors
Most networks have unused fiber strands already in the ground. See how dark fiber sensing removes the largest cost from a distributed…
Technology
DTS Power Cable Monitoring: Finding Hot Spots Before Failure
Cables fail where they run hottest, and that spot moves. See how DTS power cable monitoring measures temperature at every meter to…
Technology
DAS vs DTS vs DSS: Which Fiber Sensing Technology Fits Your Project
DAS, DTS and DSS measure different things over the same fiber. Compare range, resolution and cost to pick the right fiber sensing…
Events
Fiber Optic Sensing for Transmission Line Monitoring: the Sensor Is Already on the Tower
Fiber optic sensing for transmission line monitoring turns the OPGW already on the tower into a sensor: conductor theft alerts and 20…