Sensa to exhibit at IEEE expo, Chicago

Sensa, the leading provider of fibre optic temperature sensing and monitoring solutions for critical assets around the globe, has announced plans to exhibit at the 2008 IEEE PES Conference & Expo at the McCormick Place convention centre, Chicago April 21 – 24, 2008. 

Sensa’s office in Houston supports and delivers fiber optic Distributed Temperature Sensing (DTS) solutions which provide continuous temperature monitoring for power cable networks on projects throughout the world.  Exhibiting at the IEEE conference and expo will enable colleagues from the Head Office in the UK to meet existing customers alongside the local team in Houston. 

“We recognise the importance of the American market following the successful delivery of US projects, demonstrating our commitment to provide tailored solutions for our technology in the region,” explains Business Manager, John Downes.  “The IEEE Transmission & Distribution exhibition is an established and recognised exhibition and the ideal place for us to meet existing and potential customers from throughout the Americas and indeed the world.”

Sensa’s fiber optic solution utilises the latest fibre optic technology to provide real-time data regarding temperature measurements over many thousands of individual points, along the entire length of power cables for distances up to 30km using a single fiber. The continuous analysis of temperature measurements enables problems to be identified before they become significant.

Using the principles of Optical Time Domain Reflectometry (OTDR), pulses of light are fired through the fibre optic cable. These pulses lose energy through scattering during transit as they pass down the fibre through several mechanisms such as vibrations and density fluctuations. The combination of variations in backscattered light intensity and time domain reflectometry are measured to create accurate temperature against distance profiles.