Road Vehicle Information Collection System Based on Distributed Fiber Optics Sensor

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A novel distributed fiber optics sensor used for road vehicle information collection system was proposed. Optical fiber was fixed on the road surface to be used as the sensing media. The vehicle information such as speed, vehicle type, vehicle weight and traffic flow can be obtained. To increase the sensitivity of such sensor, an optical Fabry-Perot (F-P) fiber interference was used. Sensing optical fiber was designed to be with a metal coating for fiber protection and high performance. Experiment results show that such distributed fiber optics sensor may be with a high performance in transportation area without digging when it is installed on the road surface.

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Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 1030-1032)

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2105-2109

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September 2014

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