Two of the applications where fiberoptic sensors outperform other monitoring technologies are intrusion and discrete detection. Discrete Sensor Systems and Intrusion Detection Systems can be seamlessly deployed together to maximize monitoring and protection of assets.
Discrete FBG sensors are proven effective for monitoring structural health on multiple civil structures world-wide. The sensors are extremely sensitive and can measure movements down to 10-12 m. As many as 50 sensors may be multiplexed on a single optical fiber, facilitating ease of installation, egress routing and data management. Events for hundreds of discrete sensors may be monitored with real-time reporting using a single Fiber Bragg Grating interrogator . The properties of fiber optics allow DSS to be deployed over wide areas or long distances.
Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) determines the location of attempted physical intrusions in data communication conduits or trays, thereby helping ensure information security. IDS also may be directly buried, providing the capability to determine location of pedestrian and vehicle traffic intrusion events over distances of kilometers. Intrusion event location accuracy is within a few meters of the event approximately equal to fiber optic loop length 100 for a single fiber. This accuracy applies to both communication conduits and direct burial systems. Accuracy improves with the use of multiple co-located fiber loops, virtually eliminating false alarms with CEL’s embedded, advanced designs and configurations. Key features of both DSS and IDS FiberStrike® systems is the response time to an event of less than three seconds, with an average response time of 1.5 seconds.
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