Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) is testing a new approach to transmission line monitoring that uses the utility’s existing fiber optic network to gather real-time data across challenging ...
The same optic fibers that pulse with the world’s Internet traffic are now listening to the pulse of the planet, picking up earthquake tremors in better detail than traditional seismic networks do. In ...
When a contractor cut a Mid-Rivers Communications fiber optic cable, cell phones and computers went dead for several hours from Lewistown to west of Grass Range last Thursday. Thanks to geography, ...
Pipeline contents are typically valuable, volatile, and harmful to the environment if allowed to escape. With them being susceptible to aging, accidental damage, or tampering, the chances of an escape ...
Abstract: Fiber-optic communication systems serve as the backbone of modern data communication networks, with increasing demands on their reliability and robustness in various emerging applications. A ...
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LIVERMORE, Calif. (KGO) -- Earthquakes are a fact of life in California. And now, a local research team is developing a better way to track them and possibly better understand the forces at work. They ...
You may have seen some striking images coming out of Ukraine on social media where entire fields and city streets are covered in a dense tangle of glistening thread. This is the byproduct of a ...