Keeping pipelines safe from environmental or malicious damage is a major challenge; the long distances often through remote and hostile territory make the costs prohibitive for most conventional monitoring methods.
How can you cost effectively:
- simultaneously monitor every single metre along a pipeline?
- immediately detect drilling, cutting or digging and locate it to 1 m?
- predict and prevent hot-tapping and theft?
- track potential assailants in vehicles or on foot?
- identify real threats and avoid false alarms?
Helios from Fotech Solutions will meet this challenge
With a standard telecom-grade optical fibre cable (often already in place for SCADA) and a small, rugged interrogator, Fotech’s Helios Distributed Acoustic Monitor lets you cost effectively remotely monitor up to 50 km of pipeline, and by linking multiple units you can cover hundreds, even thousands of kilometres.