Early detection of pipeline integrity threats using a SmarT Fiber- OPtic surveillance system: The PIT-STOP project

24th International Conference on Optical Fibre Sensors, Curitiba, Brazil, September 28, 2015The preliminary results of a surveillance system set up for real time monitoring activities along a pipeline and analyzing for possible threats are presented. The system consists of a phi-OTDR based sensor used to monitor vibrations along an optical fiber combined with a pattern recognition system that classifies the recorded signals. The acoustic traces generated by the activities of different machines at various locations along a pipeline were recorded in the field. The signals, corresponding to machinery activities, were clearly distinguished from background noise. A threat classification rate of 68.11% with 55.55% false alarms was obtained