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September
2004
Smart Fibres and R. Rouvari announce hull monitoring collaboration
Smart Fibres and R.Rouvari
Oy (Finland) announce their collaboration agreement for
the application of FBG sensor technology to structural monitoring
in the maritime sector. The collaboration comes in response
to an increasing industry requirement for the hull strain monitoring
of large bulk carriers and other vessels.
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R.
Rouvari provides marine products and services for the monitoring
of hull stress, strain, fatigue and motion on board a ship.
R. Rouvari will market Smart Fibres sensor systems under the
HULLMOS brand name alongside its traditional hull monitoring
products.
The collaboration has grown out of earlier co-operation with
both companies participating in the EUREKA HULLMOS
project.
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March 2004
First Smart Fibres sensing systems supplied to Asia
Smart Fibres is to supply optical fibre sensing systems to South-East Asia. The first projects include the Changi international airport and high-rise public residential buildings in Singapore. For further information please see our references page.
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March
2004
Smart Fibres launches world-beating
FBG interrogator technology
Smart Fibres announces the development of a new technology for
the interrogation of multiple fiber Bragg grating sensors. We
have been working for many months developing a technology to
satisfy market demands for low-cost, robust instrumentation,
capable of measuring dynamic, large excursion events.
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The
outcome is a broadband TDM system architecture that offers the
same flexibility, broad bandwidth and high resolution associated
with conventional swept wavelength interrogators, but with a robustness
and price tag demanded by the emerging mass markets for condition
monitoring technologies, such as civil engineering and wind turbines.
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May
2003
Smart Fibres introduces new interrogation units from Micron Optics
Through its ongoing strategic alliance with Micron Optics Inc.,
Smart Fibres offers the newly updated range of products developed
by MOI, the FBG sensing instrument market leaders.
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Earlier
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September 2002
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Smart Fibres appoints new leader
The owners of Smart Fibres have appointed Chris Staveley as Managing Director to expand the business activities by introducing strategies to bring new leading-edge Optical fiber Strain Sensing technologies to the Company portfolio, and developing new markets to exploit the emerging products. Chris is a qualified electronics engineer with many years experience in designing cockpit Optical systems for GEC Marconi Avionics. Added to this, Chris has many years of commercial experience with the high technology R&D company Frazer-Nash.
Chris' appointment should bring about many exciting changes as Smart Fibres reacts to the technical challenges ahead to keep itself at the forefront of its industry. |
April
2000
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Smart Fibres Awarded at JEC Composites Show
Smart Fibres has again been acknowledged
for the innovation and development of the Optical fiber Strain
Sensing System. During the recent JEC Composites Show, held at
CNIT, Paris, Smart Fibres were presented with the JEC Award in
the Process and Equipment category. |
The
jury consisted of nine experts, engineers and journalists from
a number of countries. The award was presented during a ceremony
in the Amphithéatre Léonard de Vinci, attended by over one thousand
professionals from the international composites industry. The
JEC Award follows on from other successes by Smart Fibres, including
a Millennium Products award presented during 1999.
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Jan
2000
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Millennium
Dome
The Mind Zone, part of the Millennium Dome in Greenwich, UK, is
one of the first applications of Smart Fibres technology in a
civil engineering structure, making it one of the world's most
'intelligent' buildings. Sensors
in six key load-bearing areas of the structure continuously report
information back to the control centre, from where the information
is displayed to the public.
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Data
is displayed in the form of a colour-coded graphic highlighting
the strains in the various locations, scaled from black (unloaded)
to red (many people in the zone). The system demonstrated in
the Mind Zone will act as a model for future planning and assessment
of how structures actually behave in their operating environments,
throughout their entire lifetimes. By looking at the state of
the structure on an ongoing basis, it will become possible to
arrange preventative maintenance, saving costly structural inspection
and downtime.
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Feb
2000
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Millennium
Products Award
Smart Fibres Optical fiber Strain Monitoring System has been
granted Millennium Product status, following successful trials
on board a 42ft yacht this summer. The SMART fiber SYSTEM was
demonstrated on a yacht fitted with an AeroRig, which has also
earned its manufacturer a millennium products award earlier in
the year. The
double award winning 'smart' mast generated much media attention
and was featured on the 'Tomorrow's World ' television program
on 3rd November 1999. |
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November
1999
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Smart Fibres featured on BBC TV's Tomorrow's World
Smart Fibres Optical fiber Strain System was honored by an appearance
on the BBC technology showcase Tomorrow's World. The long running
weekly program highlights key British technological advances that
will impact everyday lives in the future. Tomorrow's World put
the world's first smart mast through its paces aboard the Company's
demonstration yacht "Smart" with round the world yachtswoman Helena
Darvalid. |
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