VIAVI targets fiber sensing opportunities with the NITRO platform

July 16, 2024
This new product address offers sensing solutions for fiber cables and fiber-enabled critical infrastructure. 

VIAVI has launched NITRO® Fiber Sensing, an integrated real-time asset monitoring and analytics solution for critical infrastructure, including oil, gas, and water pipelines, electrical power transmission, border/perimeter security, and data center interconnects. 

Comprising Distributed Temperature Sensing (DTS), Simultaneous Temperature and Strain Sensing (DTSS) and Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) technologies, NITRO Fiber Sensing provides the critical intelligence needed to identify and pinpoint threats swiftly. 

The solution can address critical infrastructure operators' challenges in protecting and optimizing their critical infrastructure. The costs associated with damage to critical assets often dwarf initial investment; hence, swift detection, localization, and prevention of external threats help minimize damage and outages, leading to lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). Optimizing operations helps ensure that production targets are met.

NITRO Fiber Sensing uses remote Fiber Test Heads (FTH), or interrogators, to monitor fiber optic cables or fiber-enabled infrastructure. By performing real-time distributed fiber optic sensing, FTH can measure temperature and strain along a fiber or detect acoustic vibrations close to a fiber. 

Deployed at strategic locations, including along power cables and pipelines, FTH provides valuable infrastructure health data that can be used to drive proactive maintenance and prevent downtime.

Alerts notify operators of potential threats from human interference, vehicle movement, digging operations, fishing nets, or ship anchors encroaching on valuable assets. These alarms include precise location information for maintenance, response, or repair teams.

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