Pipe Tech Americas 2011 Summit
January 27th- 28th, 2011
The Woodlands Waterway Marriott Hotel & Convention Center, Houston, Texas
QinetiQ Details
QinetiQ
Company Profile: QinetiQ's OptaSense business delivers state of the art security and condition monitoring systems to the oil and gas industry. QinetiQ is one of the world's premier technology companies with a long history in Distributed Acoustic Sensing for defence and security applications giving it an unparalleled advantage in this field in particular with respect to the accurate detection classification and localisation of significant events. OptaSense draws on over 40 years of acoustic signal processing expertise to produce a fully distributed acoustic sensing system capable of detecting, classifying and locating events with sufficient warning to effect a timely response. Formed in 2007 OptaSense is now working on pipeline security and condition monitoring projects around the world.
Key Products:
The OptaSense ® System comprises proprietary hardware system which converts standard telecoms fibre optic cable into an array of virtual microphones - one for each 10m of fibre length for over 100km. The received acoustic signals deliver information of activity in the vicinity of the cable. The OptaSense ® suite of powerful Acoustic FingerprintTM software modules enables accurate and timely classification of events in proximity to the fibre, which is typically buried next to the pipeline requiring protection.
Website:
www.QinetiQ.com/OptaSense
