Fiber sensing using supervisory path of submarine cables

    公开(公告)号:US12078528B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-09-03

    申请号:US17869763

    申请日:2022-07-20

    IPC分类号: G01H9/00 G01D5/353

    CPC分类号: G01H9/004 G01D5/35361

    摘要: Systems, and methods for automatically identifying an underground optical fiber cable length from DFOS systems in real time and pair it with GPS coordinates that advantageously eliminate the need for in-field inspection/work by service personnel to make such real-time distance/location determinations. As such, inefficient, error-prone and labor-intensive prior art methods are rendered obsolete. Operationally, our method disclosure involves driving vehicles including GPS to generate traffic patterns and automatically mapping traffic trajectory signals from a deployed buried fiber optic cable to locate geographic location(s) of the buried fiber optic cable. Traffic patterns are automatically recognized; slack in the fiber optic cable is accounted for; location of traffic lights and other traffic control devices/structures may be determined; and turns in the fiber optic cable may likewise be determined.

    Contrastive learning of utility pole representations from distributed acoustic sensing signals

    公开(公告)号:US11698290B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-07-11

    申请号:US17714091

    申请日:2022-04-05

    IPC分类号: G01H9/00

    CPC分类号: G01H9/004

    摘要: Systems and methods for operating a distributed fiber optic sensing (DFOS)/distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) system include a length of optical sensing fiber suspended aerially by a plurality of utility poles and in optical communication with a DFOS interrogator/analyzer. The method includes operating the DFOS/DAS system while manually exciting more than one of the poles to obtain frequency response(s) of the excited poles; contrastively training a convolutional neural network (CNN) with the frequency responses obtained; classifying the utility poles using the contrastively trained CNN; and generating a profile map of the excited poles indicative of the classified utility poles.

    Context encoder-based fiber sensing anomaly detection

    公开(公告)号:US11733089B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-08-22

    申请号:US17556939

    申请日:2021-12-20

    IPC分类号: G01H9/00 H04B10/071

    CPC分类号: G01H9/004 H04B10/071

    摘要: Aspects of the present disclosure describe an unsupervised context encoder-based fiber sensing method that detects anomalous vibrations proximate to a sensor fiber that is part of a distributed fiber optic sensing system (DFOS) such that damage to the sensor fiber by activities producing and anomalous vibrations are preventable. Advantageously, our method requires only normal data streams and a machine learning based operation is utilized to analyze the sensing data and report abnormal events related to construction or other fiber-threatening activities in real-time. Our machine learning algorithm is based on waterfall image inpainting by context encoder and is self-trained in an end-to-end manner and extended every time the DFOS sensor fiber is optically connected to a new route. Accordingly, our inventive method and system it is much easier to deploy as compared to supervised methods of the prior art.