Luna Delivers Large Infrastructure Monitoring Projects Leveraging New Sensing Capabilities
22 Dezembro 2021 - 10:30AM
Business Wire
Integrated sensing system improves safety of
mining operations
Luna Innovations (NASDAQ: LUNA), a global leader in advanced
optical technology, today announced a new powerful structural
health monitoring solution for the mining industry to monitor
tailings dam structures. Combining Luna’s industry-leading systems
for both distributed sensing and discrete sensing, the new solution
is more comprehensive and economical than alternative systems.
Tailings dams are large, earthen structures put in place to
contain tailings ponds, which hold toxic by-products from the
mining process. Tailings dams have unfortunately experienced a poor
safety record in recent years, with several notable collapses that
have caused severe disruption, massive costs, and even loss of
life. Luna’s newest fiber optic sensing solutions have recently
successfully been installed on a major tailings dam project in
North America to provide continuous monitoring to ensure the safety
and stability of the structure for years to come.
Luna’s innovative monitoring solutions, which have now been
deployed in Canada, Brazil and Asia, help mining operators mitigate
risks by providing an early warning of a potential issue. “Our
deployments in tailings dams are a clear example of how Luna’s
breadth of fiber optic capabilities combine to deliver a more
comprehensive and effective solution to help ensure the safety of
infrastructure like tailings dams,” said Luna’s President and CEO,
Scott Graeff. “With thousands of such dams around the world, Luna
is pleased that our initial deployments throughout the globe are
successfully operational and actively monitoring these critical
structures.”
In December of 2020, Luna acquired distributed acoustic sensing
(DAS) capability with the acquisition of OptaSense. Throughout the
course of 2021, the OptaSense products were improved and integrated
with Luna’s legacy fiber optic sensing solutions resulting in
significant new capabilities for long-range monitoring of critical
infrastructure. The tailings dam monitoring solution combines
distributed acoustic and strain monitoring acquired from OptaSense
with Luna’s discrete point monitoring systems based on fiber Bragg
grating (FBG) sensors. The result is a comprehensive system able to
monitor major events throughout an entire site while also able to
look inside structures at critical parameters which can be
precursors of potential events, such as pore pressure and spot
inclination. This integrated structural health monitoring solution
is also applicable to many other infrastructure projects beyond
tailing dams such as bridges, tunnels and other major
structures.
About Luna
Luna Innovations Incorporated (www.lunainc.com) is a leader in
optical technology, providing unique capabilities in
high-performance, fiber optic-based, test products for the
telecommunications industry and distributed fiber optic-based
sensing for a multitude of industries. Luna’s business model is
designed to accelerate the process of bringing new and innovative
technologies to market.
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