Distributed Optical Fibre Sensors use optical fibres as sensing elements to map physical parameters such as temperature and vibrations over a distance. These sensors offer real-time, continuous monitoring capabilities in diverse fields such as structural health monitoring, environmental sensing, and industrial process control. The data is collected at a rate of gigasamples per second for real-time processing on GigaHertz processors, which leads to extreme limitations in available processing capabilities.
The SRSG developed the use of parallel processing techniques to enable a high volume of complex calculations to be performed in real time. The project established the current throughput of the solution and developed a prototype with the potential to be infinitely scalable by making use of CPU, AVX and GPU technologies.