Optical fiber sensor networks floating in IT cloud
Optical fiber sensors are now practically deployed in special disciplines such as structural health monitoring, distributed vibrations sensing, surveillance and even at other fields. Thought interesting technology, there are still many persistent barriers for its massive wide scale utilization. Should optical fiber sensing system play more dominant role in the future as compared to more traditional systems, it is necessary to significantly lower the costs of the optical sensor units and also consider more distributed deployment architectures based on optical fiber sensor networks with system build intelligence assuring interfacing with traditional sensing systems. With that said, we need to have also clever signal acquisition systems. In this article, we propose new optical sensor architecture based on fusion of the optical sensor networks, internet of things and IT cloud paradigms and evaluate its possible advantages.
2016 17th International Conference on Mechatronics Mechatronika (ME)