Leeds Integrated Station
Handling 28 million passengers a year, Leeds Station is a nationally significant rail station and the busiest hub in the northern part of England.
Transport Security, Management and Protection Solutions
Cody Technology Park,
Ively Road,
Farnborough,
GU14 0LX Hampshire,
United Kingdom
OptaSense delivers decision-ready data directly into its customers’ hands, enabling real-time information to monitor and protect rail infrastructure. Its Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) technology turns standard fibre-optic cable into thousands of virtual microphones; enabling full monitoring of physical assets and helping prevent cable theft and other intrusions on transport networks.
OptaSense enables timely decision making to keep these assets safe and operating cost effectively. Real-time acoustic sensing can actually help prevent incidents before they occur, and, through using pre-laid fibre, does so at considerably reduced cost.
By turning fibre-optic cables into highly sensitive virtual microphone arrays over long distances, capable of distinguishing between human footsteps and animal tracks, OptaSense provides centralised information, creating immediate alerts, improved responses and informed decision making. As a comprehensive, discrete and pervasive security and operational monitoring solution OptaSense offers:
OptaSense is a single sensing system that provides simultaneous monitoring over complete rail or road networks enabling:
By using a client’s existing fibre core, OptaSense removes the need to add extra track-side infrastructure such as power, copper cables and resource attendance. The system does not use trackside equipment and power, which means that there is even less need for maintenance. A rail network that uses two OptaSense interrogator system units can monitor and protect 100km of rail network. Furthermore, individual sites and systems can be easily included in the network.
The OptaSense system produces real-time alerts, which work with trend-linking analysis to provide access to precursor activity to actual incidents. This means that it can be used to protect against future problems. Clients can interact with the system from their own control hub, or even from web-connected devices anywhere in the world. Training requirements for the operations, technical and maintenance sides are also cut down thanks to this multifunctional single sensing system.
Handling 28 million passengers a year, Leeds Station is a nationally significant rail station and the busiest hub in the northern part of England.
Cody Technology Park
Ively Road
Farnborough
GU14 0LX
Hampshire
United Kingdom