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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