One fiber equals thousands of sensors
With fiber optics, the fiber itself is the sensor. Laser pulses sent through a standard telecom fiber continuously measure temperature, vibrations and strain with a high level of accuracy.
Distributed Temperature Sensing (DTS), Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) and Distributed Strain Sensing (DSS) are fully distributed systems that can measure temperature, vibrations and strain several tens of kilometers of fiber at a time.
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