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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 06, 2011
Filed:
Dec. 29, 2008
John Sinclair Huffman, Conyers, GA (US);
Gerald Frank Laszakovits, San Antonio, TX (US);
James Kirkpatrick, Conyers, GA (US);
John Sinclair Huffman, Conyers, GA (US);
Gerald Frank Laszakovits, San Antonio, TX (US);
James Kirkpatrick, Conyers, GA (US);
AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., Atlanta, GA (US);
Abstract
In accordance with one aspect of the disclosed technology, wireless communications are used in a fiber surveillance system to enable monitoring of remote locations for vibrations, acoustic signals, stresses, stress fatigue or other detectable characteristics. A fiber that is deployed in the structure or region being monitored is connected a wireless transmitter that is used to transmit, to a receiving system, return optical signals obtained with the surveillance system. The return signals can be transmitted in raw form or after partial or total analysis.