Research Article

Truly Distributed Optical Fiber Sensors for Structural Health Monitoring: From the Telecommunication Optical Fiber Drawling Tower to Water Leakage Detection in Dikes and Concrete Structure Strain Monitoring

Table 1

Example of compared performances obtained with the described procedure for 7 devices, for an acquisition time of 5 minutes, at a distance of 4 km and at a temperature of C.

Raman device no.Repeatability Error

A0.06<0.1
B0.11 0.2
C0.11 0.2
D0.294.6
E0.43 0.4
F0.57 0.2
G0.580.6