Case Studies
We collaborate with global infrastructure leaders in the oil & gas, rail, roads, and borders industries.
Sintela ONYX™ is the power behind their fiber-optic sensing technology offering.
Border Surveillance
In support of the US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Linear Ground Detection System (LGDS) program, Sintela are supplying and commissioning the ONYX™ System.
ONYX™ was selected after a thorough evaluation process to provide gapless, persistent surveillance along the 1,900 miles extent of the southwest border between the United States and Mexico.
Operationally ONYX™ is configured to detect the movement of people and vehicles crossing the border as well as identifying other prohibited activity.
Border Surveillance
In support of the US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Linear Ground Detection System (LGDS) program, Sintela are supplying and commissioning the ONYX™ System.
ONYX™ was selected after a thorough evaluation process to provide gapless, persistent surveillance along the 1,900 miles extent of the southwest border between the United States and Mexico.
Operationally ONYX™ is configured to detect the movement of people and vehicles crossing the border as well as identifying other prohibited activity.
International Oil and Gas
One of the world’s largest oil pipeline customers was faced with a problem of how to test leak detection performance on a fiber optic distributed acoustic sensing system. The method proposed by the equipment supplier was unreliable and entailed 3-4 months of activity to undertake which was untenable to the end-customer especially as the method would not be repeatable through the life of the pipeline.
Sintela was tasked to develop a leak detection verification product and process that reduced time and complexity of the system and could be…
National Oil Company
A National oil company wanted to deliver sensing as a service through a single control centre. The client had several fiber optic distributed acoustic sensing systems from different vendors and wanted to have a single operational view of all their pipelines and the assets they were monitoring for other pipeline companies. The client had a high level of performance variation between vendor equipment and each required their own control units which increased complexity and cost to the…
National Oil Company
A National oil company wanted to deliver sensing as a service through a single control centre. The client had several fiber optic distributed acoustic sensing systems from different vendors and wanted to have a single operational view of all their pipelines and the assets they were monitoring for other pipeline companies. The client had a high level of performance variation between vendor equipment and each required their own control units which increased complexity and cost to the…
Global Rail Industry Operator
The customer had explored the application of distributed acoustic fiber sensing for the rail industry using several manufacturers products. The issues the client had were that the existing DAS products we too expensive, complex and significantly did not have the right level of technical performance needed for rail industry applications. Specifically, the customer needed a DAS solution that had a quantitative performance over very long ranges and most importantly that they could interface directly into the various data levels to…
Geo-Sense
On January 28, 2025, a team of scientists, engineers, and marine operations crew from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) successfully deployed the Geo-Sense instrument on the southern flank of Monterey Canyon, offshore Central California. Developed through the partnership of Sintela and MBARI, the system includes…
Sakurajima Live
Working closely with the Department of Geophysics at Tohoku University, Sakurajima Volcano Observatory at Kyoto University, Institute of Seismology and Volcanology at Kyushu University in Japan, Sintela have deployed a dual fiber ONYX™ peta Sensing Unit for real-time monitoring of the seismic activity at the Sakurajima Volcano in Kagoshima, Japan.
Sakurajima is an active volcano which often erupts and produces a substantial amount of seismic activity…
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