Optics Innovations
Fiber Sensing Carves Out an IoT Space
Optical sensing within the Internet of Things will further smart manufacturing, smart labs and smart roadways.
A fiber optic thermometer measures temperature at a power plant in Afghanistan. [USAID/Wikimedia Commons]
In recent decades, incremental breakthroughs in fiber optic sensing have spurred unique ways of using the technology beyond its traditional applications in the energy sector—even in combining optical sensors with the emerging Internet of Things (IoT). Optical sensing paired with IoT technologies gives users the capacity to collect and process data with software on a device that could be anywhere, instead of within the sensor itself.
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