Sercel and AP Sensing are pleased to announce the launch of a joint innovative solution for comprehensive railway infrastructure monitoring.The world’s first Below Ballast Scan (BBS) solution is the result of joint technical work combining AP Sensing’s unique Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) technology and Sercel’s comprehensive geophysical solution for near-surface evaluation using DAS data. The joint solution provides insights to help customers understand the roadbed and underlying geology to better manage their geotechnical risks.
The BBS monitoring solution provides critical data needed for safe railway operations and is an important complement to existing shallow near-surface inspection techniques and rail monitoring. The use of already-existing fiber optic infrastructure, together with extremely long-range evaluation capability, makes the joint Sercel and AP Sensing solution very cost-effective and non-intrusive. Assessment of rail track subsurface using DAS does not interfere with traffic and allows monitoring changes in real time for more predictive planning of maintenance operations, especially in areas with complex geological conditions or high geotechnical risks.
About AP Sensing
AP Sensing offers distributed optical sensing technology – DTS (Distributed Temperature Sensing), DAS (Distributed Acoustic Sensing), DSS (Distributed Strain Sensing) for a wide range of applications such as: Power Cable Monitoring, Fire/Heat Detection, Pipeline and LNG facilities Monitoring, Well and Reservoir Monitoring, Rail Monitoring, Perimeter Monitoring, Geotechnical and Hydrological applications, Seismology. Based on our HP/Agilent heritage, with over 35 years of optical measurement expertise, we stand for top quality and well-designed solutions.
