Innovative Photonic Sensors for Safety and Security, Part I: Fundamentals, Infrastructural and Ground Transportations

• Published in: Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) Vol. 23; no. 5; p. 2558
• Main Authors: Minardo, Aldo, Bernini, Romeo, Berruti, Gaia Maria, Breglio, Giovanni, Bruno, Francesco Antonio, Buontempo, Salvatore, Campopiano, Stefania, Catalano, Ester, Consales, Marco, Coscetta, Agnese, Cusano, Andrea, Cutolo, Maria Alessandra, Di Palma, Pasquale, Esposito, Flavio, Fienga, Francesco, Giordano, Michele, Iele, Antonio, Iadicicco, Agostino, Irace, Andrea, Janneh, Mohammed, Laudati, Armando, Leone, Marco, Maresca, Luca, Marrazzo, Vincenzo Romano, Pisco, Marco, Quero, Giuseppe, Riccio, Michele, Srivastava, Anubhav, Vaiano, Patrizio, Zeni, Luigi, Cutolo, Antonello
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland MDPI AG 25-02-2023; MDPI
• Subjects: Code Division Multiple Access; distributed sensing; fiber Bragg gratings; infrastructural monitoring; Internet of Things; Lasers; Light; optical fiber sensors; Photonics; railways safety and security; Review; Sensors; Wave division multiplexing; United Arab Emirates; distributed sensing; infrastructural monitoring; railways safety and security; fiber Bragg gratings; optical fiber sensors
• ISSN: 1424-8220; 1424-8220
• DOI: 10.3390/s23052558

Our group, involving researchers from different universities in Campania, Italy, has been working for the last twenty years in the field of photonic sensors for safety and security in healthcare, industrial and environment applications. This is the first in a series of three companion papers. In this paper, we introduce the main concepts of the technologies employed for the realization of our photonic sensors. Then, we review our main results concerning the innovative applications for infrastructural and transportation monitoring.