ORGANIZERS:
Sander Jansen / Vincent Sleiffer (Adtran)
Paola Parolari (Politecnico di Milano)
ABSTRACT:
Fibre Optical Sensing (FOS) and monitoring have been developed to oversee, predict and survey critical field parameters from the environment around us, acquiring, processing, and interpreting vast amounts of rapid changing data. Optical networks today represent one of the most expensive and pervasive distribution infrastructures. Is it possible to employ them as a mean for extensive optical sensing and monitoring? Which FOS applications will drive the development of new business opportunities or will be able to meet societal needs?
Invited speakers will detail the main applications for residential, industry 4.0 and mobile markets, providing solutions for temperature and humidity metering, intrusion detection, seismology, energy saving, road traffic monitoring, fault prediction, fire prevention, and more. In particular, the current and future FOS solutions will be analysed with regard to business development around carrier networks, debating where it is worth to use sensing technologies based on scattering (Brillouin, Rayleigh, Raman) or state of polarization processing.
The following questions will be explored:
- What are the main applications that will drive fibre-optic sensing to productization?
- How well suited are the different sensing technologies for the applications and is there a universal technology that addresses all applications?
- How will Artificial Intelligence and machine learning techniques support those applications and how will such amount of data be handled?
- Are there new technologies on the horizon that will revolutionize the fibre-optic industry?
AGENDA:
Session 1
• Introduction
• Fabienne Saliou (Orange)
• Andreas Wuestefeld (Norsar)
• Clemens Pohl (AP Sensing)
• Roman Ermakov (Technical University of Denmark DTU)
Session 2
• Mikael Mazur (Nokia Bell Labs)
• Jacopo Morosi (Cohaerentia)
• Harisha Parampalli (Luna)
• Steinar Bjørnstad (Tampnet)
• Panel discussion with all the speakers