{"id":23500,"date":"2022-10-27T13:10:52","date_gmt":"2022-10-27T13:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prismaphotonics.com\/introducing-beacon\/"},"modified":"2024-01-21T14:34:56","modified_gmt":"2024-01-21T14:34:56","slug":"introducing-beacon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prismaphotonics.com\/de\/introducing-beacon\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing Beacon 3: 200km of powerline & pipeline monitoring made easy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Setting a new industry standard in long-range infrastructure monitoring, a single Beacon 3rd generation unit can monitor up to 200 km on a single-mode optical fiber.<\/em><\/p>\n

by<\/em> Eran Inbar<\/em><\/a>, CEO at <\/em>Prisma Photonics<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Power lines and pipelines are critical infrastructure. Their functioning has a massive impact on national economics<\/a>. Yet monitoring these critical infrastructure assets has never been more challenging.<\/p>\n

We founded Prisma Photonics to keep the most critical large-scale infrastructure up and running. Now, we\u2019re launching the next generation of our technology, which enables infrastructure operators to take critical utility monitoring to the next level.<\/p>\n

We call it Beacon.<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n

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Beacon 3: Game-Changing Fiber Optic Sensing Technology<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Beacon is the third generation of our breakthrough fiber optic sensing technology<\/a>, which is the basis of our power line and pipeline monitoring solutions, PrismaPower<\/a> and PrismaFlow<\/a> and others. Leveraging our patented Hyper-Scan Fiber Sensing\u2122 <\/sup>technology, Beacon revolutionizes large-scale infrastructure monitoring by covering 200km<\/strong> \u2013 the distance between Los Angeles and San Diego – with just a single device offering the smallest footprint on the market. <\/em><\/strong>Overcoming limitations, we developed a one rack unit (1U) optical interrogator and a three rack unit (3U) comprehensive edge computing data analyzer.<\/p>\n

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With this breakthrough tech, Beacon 3 changes the equation for pipeline, power line and other linear infrastructure monitoring. With 200km coverage per unit, our monitoring solutions scale easily to cover the vast networks operators maintain. It means we can offer TSOs and midstream operators the smallest unit in the market, dramatically lower false alarm rates, and offer game-changing automatic calibration along with easy, two-hour installations.<\/p>\n

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Why Current Solutions Fall Short<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Power line and pipeline monitoring should detect failures, intrusions, lower the time and effort spent locating and rectifying faults, and raise service reliability. Yet legacy monitoring solutions struggle to scale and often can\u2019t pinpoint faults precisely when and where they occur. This makes it difficult to effectively direct work crews.<\/p>\n

Similarly, existing utility monitoring systems often rely on physical sensors that are manually attached to the pipeline or based in widely distributed valve stations & substations. These are inherently unscalable and inaccurate – offering poor detection of issues.<\/p>\n

Specifically, existing fiber sensing monitoring solutions suffer from the following challenges:<\/p>\n