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Luna's Highly Sensitive Distributed Sensing System Offers Centimeter Resolution

10 July 2007
DSS offers high resolution distributed strain and temperature measurements with low cost fiber optic sensors

Luna DSS

Monitor real-time structural health or optimize process control with Luna’s cost-effective Distributed Sensing System offering centimeter resolution strain and temperature measurements over hundreds of meters in harsh environments.

Luna Technologies, a division of Luna Innovations Incorporated that specializes in solutions for fiber optic test and measurement, announces the advancement of the Distributed Sensing System (DSS™). This improved system, which includes completely upgraded hardware and software, uses Fiber Bragg Gratings (FBGs) to make high resolution temperature or strain measurements with centimeter spatial resolution over hundreds of meters. The improvements to the DSS include extended measurement range and an enhanced, user-friendly interface. Luna’s DSS can be used in real-time structural health monitoring, highlighting hot spots or potential failures, or optimizing process controlincluding applications on aircraft, wind turbines, naval or civil structures, generators, power transformers, fuel cells, or chemical manufacturing plants.

“Due to cost and performance advantages, widespread deployment of distributed fiber optic sensors is beginning to become a reality,” said Brian Soller, Vice President and General Manager of Luna Technologies. “The beauty of our new DSS platform is that it leverages the advancements we’ve made on our other award-winning optical-test product lines to give the end user one of the best combinations of range and resolution available on the market today. In combination with our low-cost sensing fiber and our team of sensing experts and system integrators, Luna is well positioned to deliver complete sensing solutions in even the most challenging environments.”

Luna employs a unique sensor manufacturing technique that embeds FBGs in the fiber during manufacturing. The result is a robust sensing fiber and a significant cost advantage over competing FBG-based sensors, with average cost as low as $1 per sensor.

Luna’s DSS is available immediately with an estimated four to six week delivery time.

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