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.

    SUMMARIZING PREVALENT OPINIONS FOR MEDICAL DECISION-MAKING

    公开(公告)号:US20240274251A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-08-15

    申请号:US18439274

    申请日:2024-02-12

    CPC classification number: G16H20/00 G06F40/205 G06F40/40

    Abstract: Methods and systems for document summarization include splitting documents into sentences and sorting the sentences by a metric that promotes review opinion prevalence from the documents to generate a ranked list of sentences. Groups of sentences with similar embeddings are formed and a trained generalization encoder-decoder model is applied to output a common generalization of the sentences in each group. Sentences are added to a summary from the generalizations corresponding to the sentences in the ranked list, in rank-order, until a target summary length has been reached. An action is performed responsive to the summary.

    Intent-based network computing job assignment

    公开(公告)号:US12047242B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-07-23

    申请号:US18481988

    申请日:2023-10-05

    CPC classification number: H04L41/0896 H04L41/122

    Abstract: Described is a novel framework, we call intent-based computing jobs assignment framework, for efficiently accommodating a clients' computing job requests in a mobile edge computing infrastructure. We define the intent-based computing job assignment problem, which jointly optimizes the virtual topology design and virtual topology mapping with the objective of minimizing the total bandwidth consumption. We use the Integer Linear Programming (ILP) technique to formulate this problem, and to facilitate the optimal solution. In addition, we employ a novel and efficient heuristic algorithm, called modified Steiner tree-based (MST-based) heuristic, which coordinately determines the virtual topology design and the virtual topology mapping. Comprehensive simulations to evaluate the performance of our solutions show that the MST-based heuristic can achieve an efficient performance that is close to the optimal performance obtained by the ILP solution.

    SPATIOTEMPORAL AND SPECTRAL CLASSIFICATION OF ACOUSTIC SIGNALS FOR VEHICLE EVENT DETECTION OVER DEPLOYED FIBER NETWORKS

    公开(公告)号:US20240241275A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-07-18

    申请号:US18414419

    申请日:2024-01-16

    CPC classification number: G01V1/288 G01V1/001 G01V1/226 G08G1/0104

    Abstract: Disclosed are machine learning (ML) based Distributed Fiber Optic Sensing (DFOS) systems, methods, and structures for Sonic Alert Pattern (SNAP) event detection performed in real time including an intelligent SNAP informatic system in conjunction with DFOS/Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) and machine learning technologies that utilize SNAP vibration signals as an indicator. Without installation of additional sensors, vibration signals indicative of SNAP events are detected along a length of an existing optical fiber through DAS. Raw DFOS data is utilized—and not DFOS waterfall data—resulting in faster and more accurate information derivation as rich, time-frequency information in the raw DFOS/DAS waveform data is preserved. A deep learning module Temporal Relation Network (TRN) that accurately detects SNAP events from among chaotic signals of normal traffic is employed, making it reliable when applied to busy roads with dense traffic and vehicles of different speed.

    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.

    Distributed fiber optic sensor placement

    公开(公告)号:US12028110B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-07-02

    申请号:US17713171

    申请日:2022-04-04

    CPC classification number: H04B10/27 H04Q11/0062 H04Q2011/009

    Abstract: A procedure to solve the DFOS placement problem that uses a genetic algorithm to achieve a global optimization of sensor placement. First, our procedure according to aspects of the present disclosure defines a fitness function that counts the number of DFOS sensors used. Second, the procedure uses a valid DFOS placement assignment to model an individual in the genetic algorithm. Each individual consists of N genes, where N is the number of nodes in the given network infrastructure, e.g., N=|V|. Each gene has two genomes: (1) a list of 0s and/or 1s, in which is represent the network nodes that are equipped with DFOS sensors, and 0s represent the nodes that are not equipped with DFOS sensors; (2) a list of sensing fiber routes. An individual that has smallest number of is in their genes will be considered as the strongest individual. Thirdly, the procedure randomly generates a population of individuals. After a certain number of generations of population, the strongest individual in the last generation will be the global optima for the DFOS placement assignment.

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