NEC: Optical fiber damage detection: AI sensing technology
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NEC:
Utilize optical fibers spread all over the world as sensors.
Released “NEC Intelligent Optical Fiber Sensing Solution”.
Optical fiber anomaly detection:
AI analyzes the vibration detected from the optical fiber.
It is possible to detect abnormalities such as fiber damage and prevent damage.
Standard price of solution:
The standard price of Intelligent Optical Fiber Sensing is 30 million yen.
A set of sensing devices,
Annual license fee,
Including cloud construction costs
It will be sold to more than 30 customers by 2025.
Aim for sales of 10 billion yen or more.
ZDNet Japan
https://japan.zdnet.com/article/35173273/
NEC launches Optical Fiber Sensing Solution using AI
NEC Corporation
has announced today that it has begun sales of the “NEC Intelligent Optical Fiber Sensing Solution,” a solution
that allows Communications Service Providers (CSP) and optical fiber owners from around the world to utilize optical fiber as a sensor.
This solution
contributes to infrastructure maintenance by using AI to analyze vibrations detected with optical fibers,
thereby enabling the detection of abnormalities, such as fiber damage, and helping to prevent future damages.
This solution utilizes NEC’s optical fiber sensing technology, which is one of the first technologies of its kind, to enable sensing from existing optical fibers that are conventionally used for communications.
In addition to a sensing device attached to one end of the optical fiber,
this solution consists of software with a function that detects vibrations and external conditions that may cause an abnormality,
and a mapping function that accurately displays location information, such as the latitude and longitude of a fiber section.
In recent years, with the spread of high-speed, high-capacity communications for 5G,
the importance of optical fiber has increased, and more fiber is continually being installed.
As a result, there is a growing impact from communications failures caused by damaged fibers.
https://timestech.in/nec-launches-optical-fiber-sensing-solution-using-ai/