'Trial Indus' development and demonstration

我们身边到处都是光纤，它使互联网的长途通信、高速公路旁的闭路电视和铁路上的信号成为可能。分布式声学传感器（DAS）可以连接到这些纤维上，并通过测量分布式动态应变来推断纤维附近的生命模式。DAS有可能跨越多个市场的用例，包括；交通运输，使用公路或铁路附近的光纤来测量交通流量；能源方面，钻孔中的纤维用于最大限度地提高产量；安全方面，脚步声的振动表明有人侵入。聚焦传感器产生了一种新型的DAS，叫做Indus。在将Indus商业化之后，Focus Sensors希望通过进行大量现场试验来证明其在广泛应用中的价值。在2019冠状病毒病之前，计划了一项广泛的全球实地试验计划。然而，由于无法在他们的网站上与客户和最终用户一起旅行和工作，使得试验无法按计划进行。在新的现实中，需要一种新的方法。试验印度河将在这个项目中发展。试用版Indus将可远程部署，无需Focus Sensors的员工进入客户现场。利用互联网网络和云计算，Trial Indus将首次允许远程实时处理从客户基础设施收集的数据。结果将在简单、可配置的仪表板上查看，客户和FS工程师都可以使用。试用版Indus将简化FS与客户之间的远程部署和深入技术层面的协作，而不会带来COVID-19传播的任何风险。这将直接加速印度河的吸收，为FS和英国带来许多好处。

Optical fibres are all around us, enabling long distance communications powering the internet, CCTV beside highways and signals on our railways. Distributed Acoustic Sensors (DAS) can connect to these fibres and, by measuring distributed dynamic strain, use them to infer the pattern of life near the fibre. DAS has possible use cases spanning multiple markets including; transport, where fibres near road or rail are used to measure traffic; energy, where fibres in boreholes are used to maximise production rates and security where vibrations from footsteps indicate trespass. Focus Sensors produce a new form of DAS called Indus.Having commercialised Indus, Focus Sensors wish to demonstrate its value across a broad range of applications by performing a number of field trials. Before COVID-19, an extensive worldwide program of field trials was planned. However, inability to travel and work with customers and end users on their site has made it impossible for trials to go ahead as planned. In the new reality, a new approach is required.Trial Indus will be developed in this program. Trial Indus will be deployable remotely without need for Focus Sensors' employees to enter customer's site. For the first time, using internet networks and cloud computing, Trial Indus will allow remote real-time processing of data collected from customer infrastructure. Results will be viewed on simple, configurable dashboards, that can be made available to customers as well as to FS engineers. Trial Indus will allow streamlined remote deployment and collaboration between FS and our customers at a deep technical level, without any risk of COVID-19 transmission. This will directly accelerate uptake of Indus, leading to numerous benefits for FS and for the UK.