CASCADED DFOS TO REDUCE SYSTEM COST AND INCREASE SENSING REACH

    公开(公告)号:US20250123127A1

    公开(公告)日:2025-04-17

    申请号:US18890304

    申请日:2024-09-19

    Abstract: Disclosed are systems, methods, and structures that increase overall sensing reach of a DFOS system and reduces system cost without sacrificing sensed signal quality by employing a cascaded arrangement of DFOS interrogators and operating method providing backscattering DFOS, maintaining each span within a desired length which can advantageously be determined by signal quality, pulse rate, or other factors such as physical layout. The cascaded DFOS interrogators work independently while sharing the pulse light produced by the first interrogator in a cascaded series of interrogators. The light is amplified in successive fiber spans and a circulator may be employed to cut-off any backscattered signal.

    ACTIVE MICROPHONE FOR INCREASED DAS ACOUSTIC SENSING CAPABILITY

    公开(公告)号:US20220279287A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-09-01

    申请号:US17579516

    申请日:2022-01-19

    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure describe DFOS/DAS systems, methods, and structures that employ active microphones to enhance DAS operational capabilities by using an active circuit to amplify acoustic signals including voice(s). The circuit includes a microphone to collect acoustic signal(s) resulting from voice signals in the environment, and a speaker or a vibration device driven by an amplifier. The circuit can be clipped onto the fiber, with direct contact through the speaker or vibration device. A microcontroller may advantageously be employed to control the circuit for reduced power consumption, by detecting activities locally and only enabling the speaker when needed. The microcontroller may also send other information such as battery status to the DFOS interrogator through vibration codes.

    END-TO-END HITLESS PROTECTION IN PACKET SWITCHED NETWORKS
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    END-TO-END HITLESS PROTECTION IN PACKET SWITCHED NETWORKS 有权
    分组交换网络中的端到端无效保护

    公开(公告)号:US20150043330A1

    公开(公告)日:2015-02-12

    申请号:US14307573

    申请日:2014-06-18

    Abstract: A method and system are described for providing hitless protection in a packet switched network having source nodes and destination nodes. The method includes enabling a working path and a protecting path between the source and destination nodes. The working path is non-overlapping with respect to the protecting path. The method further includes replicating traffic in a given one of the source nodes to generate replicated traffic. The method also includes forwarding the traffic and the replicated traffic through a working path and a protecting path, respectively, from the given one of the source nodes to a particular one of the destination nodes. The method additionally includes delivering a hitless-protected service in the particular one of the destination nodes by selecting traffic packets received from either the working path or the protecting path.

    Abstract translation: 描述了一种用于在具有源节点和目的地节点的分组交换网络中提供无中断保护的方法和系统。 该方法包括启用源节点和目的节点之间的工作路径和保护路径。 工作路径与保护路径不重叠。 该方法还包括在给定的一个源节点中复制业务以生成复制业务。 该方法还包括将业务和复制的业务分别通过工作路径和保护路径转发到从给定的一个源节点到目标节点的特定一个。 该方法还包括通过选择从工作路径或保护路径接收到的业务分组来递送目标节点中的特定一个节点中的无受保护的服务。

    MULTI-BAND DAS WITH ENHANCED SNR, INCREASED SAMPLING RATE AND MINIMIZED INTER-LOCATION INTERFERENCE

    公开(公告)号:US20230375398A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-11-23

    申请号:US18320992

    申请日:2023-05-21

    CPC classification number: G01H9/004 H04B10/2507

    Abstract: A distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) system that collects many frequency bands within the system (in particular, analog to digital converter, or ADC) bandwidth. The bands are divided into multiple groups, and within each group, the inter-band interference from band i to band j is at least l1 dB lower than the power of band j. For different groups, the inter-band interference is at least l2 dB lower than the power of band j, that l2≥l1+Cl, where Cl is a value related to round-trip fiber loss. The bands belonging to the same group are cascaded one after another, with little guard time in between, or packed back-to-back. This arrangement advantageously increases the overall signal power, resulting in an improved SNR.

    SATURATION CAUSED PHASE JUMP AVOIDANCE IN DAS

    公开(公告)号:US20220128384A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-04-28

    申请号:US17511381

    申请日:2021-10-26

    Inventor: Junqiang HU

    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure describe systems methods and structures for avoiding saturation caused phase jump in systems that extract information from the phase of a complex sequence and exhibit an overflow or “spike” in the output of a high-pass filter. Operationally, during phase unwrapping—when an output signal exceeds a supported range—it is adjusted to be back in range by adding N·2π, to a phase where N is negative or positive integer, depending on the direction to be adjusted.

    APPARATUS, METHODS, AND SYSTEMS FOR MONITORING FIRE EXTINGUISHER OPERATIONAL READINESS

    公开(公告)号:US20170209725A1

    公开(公告)日:2017-07-27

    申请号:US15412406

    申请日:2017-01-23

    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure describe apparatus, methods and systems for monitoring the operational status of fire extinguishers through the utilization of optically sensed, color profile determinations of a pressure gauge positioned on the fire extinguisher as well as the utilization of vibrational, and location sensing devices. Advantageously, monitoring apparatus according to the present disclosure are networkable, and a number of their operational characteristics may be configured via the network and associated servers. Furthermore, monitoring apparatus according to the present disclosure may employ vibrational, acceleration, GPS, RFID, and ultrasonic sensors to detect movement, location, and obstructions. In sharp contrast to the prior art, apparatus, methods and systems according to the present disclosure operate with existing fire extinguishers and provide a convenient, cost effective, and highly functional upgrade path for deployed fire extinguishers.

    AUTOMATIC CALIBRATION FOR BACKSCATTERING-BASED DISTRIBUTED TEMPERATURE SENSOR

    公开(公告)号:US20240302225A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-09-12

    申请号:US18598386

    申请日:2024-03-07

    CPC classification number: G01K15/005 G01K11/32

    Abstract: Disclosed are vehicle-infrastructure interaction systems and methods employing a distributed fiber optic sensing (DFOS) system operating with pre-deployed fiber-optic telecommunication cables buried alongside/proximate to highways/roadways which provide 24/7 continuous information stream of vehicle traffic at multiple sites; only require a single optical sensor cable that senses/monitors multiple locations of interest and multiple lanes of traffic; the single optical sensor cable measures multiple related information (multi-parameters) about a vehicle, including driving speed, wheelbase, number of axles, tire pressure, and others, that can be used to derive secondary information such as weight-in-motion; and overall information about a fleet of vehicles, such as traffic congestion or traffic-cargo volume. Different from merely traffic counts, our approach can provide the count grouped by vehicle-types and cargo weights. Precise measurements are facilitated by high temporal sampling rates of the distributed acoustic sensing and a dedicated peak finding algorithm for extracting the timing information reliably.

    FAST OPTICAL CABLE IDENTIFICATION USING ACOUSTIC PEN

    公开(公告)号:US20240235668A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-07-11

    申请号:US18485198

    申请日:2023-10-11

    CPC classification number: H04B10/073 G01H9/004

    Abstract: A fast optical fiber identification system and method employing an acoustic pen that is connected to a portable device (such as a laptop, a smartphone, an iPad). The pen generates acoustic signals under the control of the portable device. The portable device interacts with a DFOS (Distributed Fiber Optic Sensor, e.g., a DAS or DVS) interrogator to notify the interrogator about the generated signals and receives a detection result from the interrogator. The result is either illustrated using a graph on the portable device, or as a tone of different volume, to indicate the strength of the pen's signal detected by the interrogator. As the pen touches/excites vibrationally/acoustically each of the fibers, the portable device notifies the user about the detected signal's strength or presence/no-presence, which allows a technician to quickly identify the fiber of interest.

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