Software enabled Fiber Optic Multisensing Network

SoFiN Project - HORIZON-CL4-2022-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01-03 - Advanced multi-sensing systems (Photonics Partnership)

Adaptive, Modular & Highly integrated photonic multi-sensor

Objective 1: Innovative development of an adaptive, modular and highly integrated photonic multi-sensing system, capable for various sensing applications.

Establish new types of digital signal processing and cloud connection

Objective 2: Develop novel signal processing concepts to improve sensing performance and integration of the sensor system into a cloud-based monitoring system.

Validation and Demonstration under context of end-user needs

Objective 3: Perform extensive lab tests to verify the goals. The system will be further used in three typical application use cases to study behaviour close to real world scenarios.

Use Cases

A major importance of distributed sensing lies within the field of critical infrastructure monitoring. Three different use cases are planned for the flexible system: 1) Test the sensing system in high voltage power cables to monitor the temperature along the cable infrastructure, 2) The supervision of telecommunication infrastructure using an existing fiber network to detect events in the perimeter of the equipment like detection of fiber cables manipulation in data centers and 3) Investigate the supervision of water supply network to detect leakage induced temperature and strain changes in surrounding soil but also detect infrastructure manipulations .

Supervision of powerlines

Distributed temperature and acoustic sensing will be used to collect information on the status of powerlines. Also, we intend to interrogate FBG (Fiber Bragg Grating) arrays to further demonstrate and validate the flexibility of the system.

Supervision of telecommunication

Using the system information will be collected on external impacts threatening the fiber infrastructure, e.g. fire, stress, heavy machinery in the perimeter of fiber cables that could risk fiber integrity. Investigations will be also performed to increase security of unmanned network sites.

Supervision of water supply network

Distributed acoustic sensing will be used to detect leaks via changing sound generated by water flow, but also FBG array-based supervision to detect temperature and strain variation caused by lost water combined with methods of machine learning to detect water loss at an early stage.

SoFiN Consortium

Start date: 01/12/2022
Duration: 48 months
Funding: € 3,694,302.50
Partners: 8
Countries: 4

CyRIC

Coordinator – CY

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FAU

DE

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ADTRAN

DE

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DTU

DK

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NKT

DK

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TELE2

EE

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WBN

CY

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ENERGINET

DK

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