Dutch vibration sensing optical cable
Netherlands-based research centre TNO has developed a method to automatically detect maritime traffic in the vicinity of subsea infrastructure. Using redundant optical fibres in fibre-optic cables as sensors, makes it possible to pick up vibrations from maritime traffic. EIB provides €25 million venture debt financing to Dutch fibre-optic sensor innovator Optics11 for R&D on their technologies for civilian and defence applications. , dark fibers), can be used to monitor vibrations along and over long distances (>100 km) using a Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) interrogator.
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