May 26, 2011

SMARTEC is proud to announce the production of its 10,000th SOFO fiber optic sensor. Originally introduced in 1996, SOFO and MuST deformation sensors have been used in hundreds of projects to monitor strain and displacement in bridges, buildings, tunnels and many other types of structures. These large numbers of applications and sensors produced have clearly demonstrated the reliability performance of the SOFO technology. Sensors installed 15 years ago are still active today and are showing no sign of ageing or drift.

By a curious twist of fate, the 10’000th sensor is being delivered to EPFL (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology), where the SOFO system was originally developed in the early 1990s.