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Date Announced: 20 Feb 2014
Exclusive deal targets vibration measurements in harsh environments.
Smart Fibres announces today that it has entered in to an exclusive licensing agreement with Brüel and Kjær to produce and sell fiber-optic acceleration sensors worldwide.
Brüel and Kjær have developed a fiber-optic acceleration sensor to make vibration measurement, with the unique measurement benefits of optical fiber sensing technology.
This increases tolerance against extreme harsh environments, and creates long-term sustainable monitoring solutions for a wider range of applications. Smart Fibres considers this to be the best in class product available for high speed vibration measurements for condition monitoring of rotating machines, when combined with Smart Fibres’ SmartScan interrogator.
The SmartAccel-HF is a single axis fiber Bragg grating acceleration sensor, suitable for high frequency measurement of small vibrations. The sensor is ideal for condition monitoring of rotating machines such as pumps, turbines, motors and wheeled vehicles. The SmartAccel-HF can be used as part of an integrated fiber-optic system to monitor subsea pumps for the oil and gas industry.
Under the terms of the agreement, Smart Fibres will manufacture and sell the product to its customers in the oil and gas industry and other harsh environment industries.
CEO of Smart Fibres Chris Staveley says, "One of the key advantages of FBG technology is the ability to multiplex numerous sensors of different measurand types on a few optical fibres. Acceleration is one of the most interesting measurands for machine health monitoring, so we are delighted that Brüel and Kjær have applied their expertise to develop this product.
"We have already proven the product in oil & gas applications and we are now looking to apply it to our other industry sectors. By bringing the manufacture of the product in-house, we have made acceleration an integral part of our Smart Fibres machine health monitoring solutions."
Source: Smart Fibres
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Web Site: www.smartfibres.com/
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