DFOS

The Fiber Optic Sensing Association (FOSA) announced the winners of its annual Champion of Innovation Award. FOSA selected Senators Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and J.D. Vance (R-OH) based on their extraordinary leadership in the 118th Congress toward enhancing the safety and security of the U.S. rail system. Distributed fiber optic sensing (DFOS), FOSA’s technology focus, is ideally suited to applications in rail where fiber optic cables running parallel to tracks improve safety through detection of pedestrians, monitoring of freight and passenger traffic, and immediate detection and locational pinpointing of both track and rolling stock defects.

Institute of Engineering Geodesy and Measurement Systems, Graz University of Technology, started together with the project partners AIT and ACI Monitoring the distributed fiber optic sensing (DFOS) measurements at the Aurachbruecke.

Prysmian Group have recently launched a monitoring system for overhead transmission lines

Distributed acoustic sensing (DAS)…results demonstrate that φ-OTDR can be used to quantitatively measure strain in roads associated with events as small as a dog walking on the surface.

Sensing’s Dr. Alex de Joode, Head of Pipelines & Terminals Business unit as well as the Chairman of the Technical Committee of the Fiber Optic Sensing Association (FOSA), discusses the applicability of distributed fiber optic sensing-based pipeline leak detection software under API 1130 and API 1175

Tech Talk looks at how to achieve improved distributed acoustic and vibration sensing using optical fiber with continuous, grating-enhanced backscattering, sponsored by OFS

how distributed fiber optic sensing technology is advancing safety and efficiency in pipeline operations. Distributed fiber optic sensing (DFOS) provides the unique ability to monitor in real-time several physical phenomena associated with these threats

AP Sensing’s fifth generation DAS system builds upon leading measurement capabilities with the superiority of unique 2P Squared technology….35 years of experience and thousands of systems installed worldwide

OptaSense having instrumented more than 25,000 km of pipes-including the 1850 km of the Trans-Anatolian Natural Gas Pipeline running across Turkey.

Distributed Fiber Optic Sensing has expanded current pipeline leak detection technologies…. selection process must take into consideration the correlation between the “leak signature” of a particular pipeline and the LDS methods provided by different DFOS technologies.

California Energy Commission has invested resources in finding innovative ways to monitor future offshore wind infrastructure and its impacts on the environment. A project led by LBNL is looking at if distributed fiber optic sensing (DFOS)

FOSA Chairman Kent Wardley’s March 26, 2021 letter to Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg making recommendations for the Biden Administration’s infrastructure proposal.