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System and method for optically reading a sensor array

Abstract

BACKGROUND
0003. When conducting activities such as underwater acoustic monitoring, large structural monitoring, or geo physical Surveys, sensors are typically disposed at locations where such monitoring is desired, while a monitoring station is located remotely at Some distance away from the particular area that is being monitored or surveyed by the sensors. For example, many kilometers of lines of vibration sensors (eg, geophones or accelerometers) are used in geophysical explo ration, many kilometers of lines of acoustic sensors are towed by ships and Submarines, and other sensor modalities (eg, chemical) may be envisioned in other applications. Currently, these sensors utilize electrically conductive channels for power and/or data. Complex power hungry electronics may be required at each sensor to synchronize and/or format sen Sor data for digital data communications. Analog data com …

Date
December 31, 2015
Authors
YY Dorfman, SE Ritter, JL Habif
Inventors
Yevgeniy Yakov Dorfman, Scott Evan Ritter, Jonathan L Habif
Patent_office
US
Application_number
14318549