Settlement monitoring, rock burst
Heat & fire detection
Preventing spontaneous coal combust
Markets
Mining
In the field of mining Fiberoptic technologies had been applied since many years due to their immunity to electromagnetic interference. Brillouin Sensing can be applied for settlement monitoring and early warning of rock bursts. Heat and fire detection is another area to increase safety for infrastructure and humans.
National Research Council, Territorial Research Area of Bologna – Via Piero Gobetti, 101, 40129 Bologna BO, Italy
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