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Fiber Broadband Association announced the winners of the Proof of Concept (PoC) Showcase. Game Changer Award – presented to FOSA…

“We’re excited to welcome globally recognized scientists, leading technology developers in fiber optic sensing, and our valued FOSA members to the historic city of Graz, Austria,” said FOSA member and meeting host Dr. Werner Lienhart.  The event, themed “Fiber Optic Sensing Development, Commerce and the Greater Good” brings technology and industry leaders together for a visionary exchange including technology presentations, networking plus fiber optic sensing-focused laboratory and field tours in and around Graz, Austria, a UNESCO World Heritage site.

FOSA announces the runner-up and winner of its annual FOSA Project Awards – SAMM Teknoloji for its Earthquake Early Warning System, and a collaboration between Dura-Line and LUNA for Using Fiber for Situational Awareness Along Roadways

FOSA announced the election of four board members, as well as its officer slate for 2024, at the organization’s Annual Meeting in December

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.

Advancing the development of effective leak detection systems is critical to improving pipeline safety and preventing methane releases and other hazardous materials releases. Toward this objective, FOSA strongly supports a PHMSA pipeline safety and test facility

PRESS RELEASE  February 1, 2023 Fiber Optic Sensing Association Files Cyber Risk Management Comments with Transportation Security Administration (TSA) WASHINGTON,…

FOSA representatives presented Common Ground Alliance’s Technology Committee Spotlight Webinar “Damage Prevention Opportunities using Distributed Fiber Optic Sensing.” The webinar highlighted fiber optic sensing technology advancing damage prevention.

Companies that make fiber sensing equipment are eager to lengthen their opportunity list as smart city and government-funded broadband network programs gain momentum

FOSA’s Dig Once Policy: 16 State Models paper referenced by McKinsey & Company

FOSA wrote to Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg to encourage his Department to move forward with a pipeline safety rulemaking, to promote the adoption of technology enhancements.

DFOS based pipeline leak detection and location software (DFOS-PLDS) is possibly the most important technological development in pipeline leak detection in recent years